Associate, Blockchain Security Engineer

The role

This individual contributor will identify and mitigate security risks across on-chain systems. The engineer will participate in assessments of blockchain architectures and smart contracts and work with various teams to deliver secure software solutions.

What you will do

• Participate in secure software design, architecture, threat modeling, and code reviews for blockchain and on-chain systems.
• Perform security reviews and audits of smart contracts, including Solidity/EVM and Rust/Solana-based applications.
• Assist teams with the mitigation of findings by assessing impact, proposing solutions, and providing technical guidance.
• Assess blockchain-specific risks including smart contract vulnerabilities, protocol design flaws, and transaction security.
• Develop secure design patterns, reusable security controls, and tooling for blockchain applications and supporting infrastructure.
• Research emerging blockchain threats and mitigations using modern security and AI-assisted tooling.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in security engineering, product/application security, blockchain security, or software development of security features.
• Strong hands-on experience with blockchain technologies and smart contract security, including Solidity/EVM and/or Rust/Solana, secure coding, and in-depth code review.
• Experience with secure SDLC practices and security testing techniques such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and fuzzing.
• Strong familiarity with key management, authentication and authorization, TLS and PKI, cloud security, container and Kubernetes security, infrastructure security, and network security.
• Strong analysis skills, detail oriented, collaborative and solution-driven, with strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Direct exposure to liquid staking, tokenized assets, or similar digital asset protocols and architectures.
• Published material on vulnerabilities/security bugs or meaningful security contributions within the Web3 community.
• Familiarity with DeFi protocol security, MPC, multi-signature systems, key management, and custody architectures.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups

About the company

Galaxy Digital Inc. is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company delivers onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets.