Lead Application Security Engineer

Role Overview

Babylon is a leading blockchain project founded by Stanford Professor David Tse and backed by top-tier VCs like Polychain Capital. We are looking for a Lead Application Security Engineer to secure our Bitcoin staking protocols and Babylon Genesis, our Cosmos-SDK based blockchain. This role is critical in ensuring the integrity of our trustless protocols that serve as the backbone for a Bitcoin-powered shared economy.

Key Responsibilities

• Security Ownership: Act as the primary owner for the security of all technologies, protocols, and products, addressing attack vectors in algorithms, cryptography, and code.
• Strategy & Governance: Establish overall security objectives and lead the planning and execution of security roadmaps and feature rollouts.
• Engineering Collaboration: Partner with the engineering team to integrate best security practices into the SDLC and ensure security is baked into the team culture.
• Audit Management: Manage the end-to-end audit lifecycle, including sourcing external auditors, defining scope, and overseeing the remediation of findings.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in hands-on security analysis and vulnerability discovery for blockchains or DeFi protocols.
• Strong proficiency in smart contract languages and their semantics.
• Deep understanding of operational security (OpSec) and blockchain security best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• A proven track record of identifying past critical vulnerabilities in major blockchain protocols.
• Experience with Cosmos-SDK or Bitcoin-related protocols.