About the role
Who You Are
Galaxy is seeking a Senior Blockchain Security Engineer with expertise in securing smart contracts, blockchain protocols, and supporting applications and infrastructure. This is a hands-on individual contributor role based in India, with a strong focus on identifying and mitigating security risks across on-chain systems. The engineer will participate in assessments of blockchain architectures and smart contracts, followed by the facilitation and/or implementation of remediations. The engineer will work closely with Engineering, Product, Protocol, and Infrastructure teams to design and deliver secure software solutions at a rapid growth company.
What You 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 for implementation.
- 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, and leverage modern security and AI-assisted tooling to improve vulnerability discovery and code review.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ 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.
- 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 several of the following topics: 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.
Bonus points:
- 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.
What We Offer:
- 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
*Benefits may vary depending on location.
Apply now and join us on our mission to engineer a new economic paradigm.