Senior Security Engineer Digital Asset Custody / Crypto Security Engineer

Cloudious LLC
Austin, TX, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$145,600.0 - $160,160.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Architectural Patterns Cyber Security Digital Assets Disaster Recovery Distributed Systems Fault Tolerance Fuzz Testing Hardware Security Module Key Management Blockchain Software Engineering
+3 more
Tokenization Management of Software Versions Web3.js

Job description

Custody key management and policy systems are secure resilient auditable and trusted Failure modes are well understood modeled and operationally prepared for Incidents are handled with clarity speed What This Engineer Will Do Custody Key Management Cryptographic Architecture Design implement and evolve institutional grade key management architectures including Hardware Security Modules HSMs Multi Party Computation MPC Secure key generation storage rotation signing and recovery Define clear trade offs and architectural patterns across hot wallet warm wallet and cold storage models Ensure cryptographic designs align with regulatory security and audit expectations Partner closely with Cybersecurity and Risk to embed defense in depth and zero trust principles into custody design Custody Policy Engine Governance Lead the design of the Custody Policy Engine governing Authorization approvals limits and segregation of duties Transaction controls and exception handling Policy versioning auditability and enforceability Ensure policies are code driven deterministic observable and testable Translate business legal and risk requirements into clear enforceable technical controls Serve as a trusted technical advisor on custody governance topics Disaster Recovery Resilience Incident Ownership Own custody specific disaster recovery strategies including key recovery quorum loss scenarios and chain events Author and maintain incident response and recovery runbooks for custody related failures or security events Partner with Operations Security and SRE to ensure practicable tested recovery procedures Lead post incident technical analysis root cause reviews and long term remediation strategies Overall Custody Architecture Risk Posture Act as the custody architecture authority ensuring consistency across wallets blockchains environments and platforms Identify architectural and operational risks early propose mitigation strategies with clear trade offs Ensure custody designs scale across assets chains and future tokenized products Influence enterprise standards by raising the bar on security resilience and technical rigor AI Augmented Engineering Excellence Leverage GenAI and agentic AI tools to accelerate architecture design threat modeling documentation testing and reviews Set expectations for AI assisted engineering rigorspeed with correctness not shortcuts Partner with engineering teams to raise architecture code and documentation quality across custody components

Requirements

10 years of software engineering experience with deep specialization in security sensitive or cryptographic systems Strong hands on experience with HSMs MPC frameworks and secure key management systems Experience with Web3 Security tooling such as Slither Mythril Foundry Fuzzing Experience with common cryptography implementation languages such as C C Rust Go Experience with collaborating with security auditors Ex Trail of bits halborn Proven ability to design systems where failure has material risk implications Strong grounding in distributed systems secure architectures and fault tolerant design Track record of acting as a technical authority without formal people management Strongly Preferred Experience with crypto custody digital asset platforms or blockchain infrastructure Prior ownership of incident response DR design or security runbooks Ability to articulate risk based trade offs clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders Systems thinker who connects technology security policy and operations Comfortable challenging assumptions and raising concerns early in high stakes environments Experience applying AI tools to complex engineering workflows

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