Polychain Labs is a small, senior team of infrastructure engineers enabling some of the largest cryptocurrency holders to actively participate in new networks and opportunities. We work with founders to launch new networks and are often the largest proof-of-stake participants from launch day on. This security engineering role will play a key effort to reduce risk as we participate in novel networks, detect anomalies and assist in the design of new protections.

Job Responsibilities

• Detection & Response: Understanding, instrumenting and automating high-signal alerts and appropriate responses from production environments that provide early indicators of compromise.
• Infrastructure Hardening: Working with infrastructure engineers to design and implement hardened, layered infrastructure.

• Asset Research: Understanding and modeling unique risks to our participation across networks, especially those that could result in loss of funds.  Monitor for unsafe conditions and feed results back to help design stronger protections that protect our customers.

• Risk Modeling: Sourcing and evaluating risks from diverse perspectives across and external to our team.  Prioritizing security efforts based on these risk assessments.
• Application Audit: Implement automation and processes that improve the security of the applications that we’re developing and running.

Requirements

• Experience working with production environments at any scale and the ways in which they can fail.
• Working knowledge of cryptographic systems and available protections.
• Thinks automation-first and repeatedly replaces manual toil with engineering automated systems.

Why Polychain Labs

• Opportunity to collaborate alongside some of cryptocurrency’s most experienced engineers and entrepreneurs
• Access to the scale, resources and expertise that is powering a new financial system
• A fast-moving, collaborative environment with a demonstrated track record for operating at the highest levels.

Key Technologies

• Golang & Rust
• Docker Containers
• GCP, AWS & On-Premise Platforms.

Polychain is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Polychain does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.