Security Engineer, Story Protocol
3+ days a week in office
IP infrastructure for the internet era
Open for applications
IP infrastructure for the internet era
21-100 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower creators by providing a blockchain-based platform where the evolution of creative IP—whether it's prose, images, audio, or more—can be transparently tracked, attributed, and monetized.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, with a focus on blockchain technology, cloud infrastructure, web applications and services
- Deep understanding of security best practices for cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar), including knowledge of IAM, network security, and infrastructure hardening
- Proven experience in performing security assessments and identifying vulnerabilities in code, infrastructure, and third-party services
- Familiarity with common security frameworks such as OWASP, NIST, and CIS
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively mitigate potential risks before they become critical issues
- Strong communication skills, capable of articulating complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Passion for blockchain and web3 technologies is a major plus
- Experience with cryptographic protocols, including blockchain consensus algorithms, smart contract security, and key management is considered a bonus
- Bay Area or willing to relocate. The position requires working in-office three days a week
What the job involves
- As a Security Engineer at Story, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of our platform.
- You’ll be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining security measures that protect our protocol and the sensitive data it handles.
- Working closely with our engineering teams, you will ensure that security is embedded into every layer of our technology stack — from L1 blockchain, smart contracts to our backend service, and cloud infrastructure
- Design and implement security measures across Story’s infrastructure, including cloud services, smart contracts, APIs, and databases, to ensure end-to-end protection
- Perform security assessments on the platform’s smart contracts, APIs, and services, identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities
- Develop and integrate security tools and processes for continuous monitoring, logging, and real-time alerts to proactively detect and respond to potential threats
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure secure coding practices, conducting regular code reviews and security audits of new features and updates
- Lead incident response efforts and work on post-mortem analysis to prevent recurrence of security incidents
- Evaluate third-party integrations for security risks, ensuring that all external partners and services comply with our security standards
- Stay ahead of emerging security threats in the blockchain/web3 space and contribute to the development of our threat intelligence framework
- Contribute to security policy development and foster a culture of security awareness across the organization through training and guidance
Our take
Utilizing the advances in blockchain technology, Story Protocol is a tech company that creates a streamlined framework that can manage the intellectual property of gaming, prose, media, and audio. Owners of properties built upon the Story Protocol IP software can track their work’s origin which gives freedom to other individuals to remix and build upon existing works with the blessing of the creator. These reworkings are also provided with value by the IP framework.
Intellectual property has become a gold rush as of late, with companies such as Microsoft bidding huge prices for the likes of the Call of Duty games series. With new and valuable IPs being created daily and for next-gen platforms and media services, legacy IP tracking services can’t keep up with the rate of new creations. Story Protocol creates a permissionless protocol that creators can extend to other users, all stored within a global IP registry. The ultimate aim is to create a safe and secure creative ecosystem for IP.
With impressive funding from large investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Story Protocol is off to a strong start, reflecting the hunger for new ways to manage IP across the entertainment industry. Investors clearly see Story Protocol as a major industry disruptor, especially with its lofty aims of dispelling gatekeepers and democratizing intellectual property.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2024
$80m
SERIES B
Sep 2023
$24.7m
SEED
Total funding: $134m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jason Levy
(Co-Founder)Previously the Founder and CEO of World Between Worlds. Also worked as a Director of Episode Originals at Pocket Gems, a Product Manager Intern at Amazon and a Senior Financial Analyst at Apple.
Jason Zhao
(Co-Founder)Co-founder of PIP Labs. Previously worked in Product at DeepMind.
Seung Yoon Lee
(Co-Founder & CEO)Current Venture Partner at Hashed and Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. Previously Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment and CEO and Founder at Radish Fiction.
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