Senior Security Engineer, Lightning Labs
Lightning Network infraastructure firm
Open for applications
Lightning Network infraastructure firm
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bridge the world of open source software and the next-generation of bitcoin financial software.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years prior experience in in systems security
- An ability to work with a high impact, fast-moving startup team
- Extensive knowledge of operating system and computer architecture internals
- Strong understanding of cryptography, protocol design and adversarial analysis
- Experience in reverse engineering and exploiting of cryptographic protocol (cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) systems
- Extensive expertise with professional software development experience in Go, Rust, C/C++, and/or Java
- Experience in security incident response
- Experience in security code review and vulnerability triaging
- Prior experience running an open source facing bug bounty program
- 2+ years management experience or experience as a senior decision maker
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure
- Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin and Lightning design principles
- Candidates with additional experience are welcome to apply as we are open to adjusting the role accordingly
What the job involves
- Designing and deploying active fuzzing, black+white box testing and penetration testing infrastructure for open source and production systems
- Performing security audits and review of both internal production systems as well as open source software which interacts with Bitcoin+Lightning in a security critical manner
- Provide mentorship and guidance to level up your teammates
- Creating global security policy, standards, guidelines, and procedures to ensure ongoing maintenance of security
- Overseeing security aspects of software release processes and infrastructure
- Determining security team requirements for future growth
- Developing and ensuring responsiveness of security incident management processes
- Performing risk management assessments
Our take
San Francisco-based Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that enables users to send money across the world instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network.
The company recently raised substantial funding which is being invested into a new infrastructure it's building called the ‘Taro Stablecoin Protocol’, which will ensure that transfers and transactions for Bitcoin will remain easy and efficient for everyone to access whilst creating cheaper charges.
Off the back of an impressive $70 million in funding awarded in April 2022, this new product is in a good position to succeed. The company has been soliciting feedback from the developer community on its proposal for Taro and can therefore use this feedback whilst further developing the product.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$70m
SERIES B
Feb 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82.5m
Company HQ
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
(CTO)Previously served as a Software Engineering Intern for Google and currently works as a Teaching Assistant UC Santa Barbara.
Elizabeth Stark
(CEO)Previously taught at Stanford and Yale University and has advised startups ranging from decentralized technology to AI and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Stanford StartX.
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