Staff Security Engineer, OpenSea
$185-340k
+ Equity
Decentralised NFT marketplace
Open for applications
Decentralised NFT marketplace
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$185-340k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shape an accessible and open digital economy for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working within security engineering with expertise in forensics, Malware Analysis, Intrusion Detection and incident response
- Expertise with AWS (preferred), GCP, or other cloud providers
- 4-5+ years of experience in detection engineering, rules development, SIEM experience (ex, ELK, Splunk et al), EDR such as SentinelOne (what we use), CarbonBlack, etc
- Start-up experience
- Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Go, PowerShell, Node.js, C#, Python, and Ruby
- Deep knowledge and experience modeling threats aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and Lockheed Killchain model
- SANS certification (504, 508, 578) a bonus
- A strong interest in blockchain technology, with either prior experience or a significant curiosity and enthusiasm to learn
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Security Engineer who will be responsible for preventing, detecting, and responding to all manner of security incidents that impact the company, on and off chain
- The Security Engineer will be deeply involved with overall detection and response strategy, development and deployment of cutting edge tools, forward-thinking policy development, and stewarding a culture of security across the company
- Build out a novel detection platform to be a central location for all alerts, tune and reduce noise, increase signal, prioritization of high level alerts, automation and contextualization of events
- Lead and coordinate response efforts to security incidents, including identification, containment, eradication, and recovery
- Gather and analyze threat intelligence data and stay informed on emerging threats and vulnerabilities
- Integrate threat intelligence into detection and response tooling, processes and capabilities
- Automate repetitive tasks and workflows to improve the efficiency of security operations
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to embed detection and response capabilities across the stack
- Provide training and guidance to other teams on security best practices and incident response
- Implement monitoring tools to track activities and transactions on the blockchain, detecting anomalous or malicious behavior that could pose security threats. Analyze patterns to preemptively identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities, ensuring the integrity and security of all blockchain transactions
Our take
OpenSea is a peer-to-peer digital marketplace for NFTs or uniquely identifiable digital items. These items are authenticated with blockchain and are part of a new internet economy that consists of digital products representing art, game characters, domain names, and event tickets.
The OpenSea platform allows users to both purchase NFTs or list digital items for sale. The platform initially encountered speed issues when NFT trading boomed due to the limitations of the Ethereum blockchain technology it was using. However, the company has transitioned to a new blockchain system, Polygon, which has mitigated the problem.
In the wake of the FTX collapse the NFT world has been shaken up, and new competitors have arisen to take advantage of the disruption. One such rival, Blur, has recently overtaken OpenSea's market lead. This has led to OpenSea changing its policies and fee structures to be more favourable to creators in a bid to retake its crown. It remains to be seen whether Blur and other rivals will be able to keep up the pressure, but it's clear that OpenSea will need to innovate if it wants to remain at the head of the market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $427.3m
Company benefits
- Paid family leave
- Health insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Flexible hours
- Workshops & conferences
- Travel & company retreats
Company values
- Trust comes first
- Dive deep
- Build an ocean, not an aquarium
- Take the helm
- Iron sharpens iron
- High quality, high velocity
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Devin Finzer
(CEO)Started their career as a Pinterest Software Engineer, before leaving after almost 2 years to co-found Iris Labs and Claimdog. They left their Engineering Manager role at Credit Karma in December 2017 to co-found OpenSea.
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