Head of Security

The role

The Head of Security will own security across the Helius engineering platform and lead incident response. You will set security direction across infrastructure, cloud, and production systems while building toward a security team.

What you will do

• Lead security at Helius, setting direction and owning execution across infrastructure, cloud, and production systems
• Own incident response end to end including detection, response, runbooks, on-call readiness, and regular tabletop exercises
• Establish a strong security posture across the engineering platform
• Review and manage third-party and supply-chain risk
• Partner with engineering to embed security into how they build and ship
• Lead the compliance roadmap and respond to customer security reviews
• Hire, develop, and grow the security team
• Own the security strategy and roadmap and maintain the threat model and risk register
• Communicate clearly about risk with executives, engineers, and customers

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in security, including experience securing high-availability, internet-facing infrastructure at scale
• Strong engineering skills: you read and write code and can dig into systems yourself
• Deep expertise in cloud security, bare metal and production environments
• Hands-on experience with detection and response, and you’ve led through a real security incident
• Experience building a security program or significantly scaling a security function
• Experience securing developer products, APIs, or platforms
• Strong grasp of secrets and key management
• Comfortable moving fast, iterating, and making good decisions under pressure
• Pragmatic and high-ownership
• Clear communicator who can partner with engineers and say no without being a blocker
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, async-friendly team

Nice to have

• Experience leading a SOC 2 or similar audit
• Prior security leadership at a high-growth startup

Benefits

• Market-leading salary
• meaningful equity
• generous vacation
• wellness budgets
• support for learning and travel

About the company

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana to empower developers to create crypto-powered applications. They are a small, senior team backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital.