Senior Security Engineer

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Cybersecurity

Gauntlet

Gauntlet is a DeFi infrastructure and research company that provides quantitative risk management, simulation, and institutional yield products for crypto-native financial applications and protocols. Its public materials emphasize safer onchain yield, protocol optimization, and institutional capital deployment.

Software Development
51-200
Founded 2018

Description

  • Threat model new product features and integrations, and harden systems with effective controls.
  • Operate and evolve the application security toolchain while keeping it high-signal for developers.
  • Own day-to-day security operations across the detection stack, including EDR, SIEM, on-chain monitoring, identity, and cloud.
  • Triage vulnerability and bug-bounty findings, drive remediation, and support incident response end to end.
  • Take security tooling and projects from evaluation through org-wide rollout across engineering, infrastructure, and other teams.
  • Automate repetitive security work using AI for vulnerability workflows, access reviews, SOC 2 and audit evidence collection, vendor due diligence, and recurring reporting.
  • Build reusable AI components, Claude skills, and agents that can be adopted by engineering and other functions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to explain risk clearly and drive findings to closure.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience spanning product or application security and security operations.
  • Experience conducting technical security assessments of software and systems, including system hardening, policy analysis, and implementing effective controls.
  • Strong adversarial mindset with the ability to think like an attacker and pressure-test assumptions.
  • Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript, and experience with Claude Code, Codex, or similar AI tools.
  • Hands-on experience applying AI and LLMs to automation and building reusable tooling or components adopted by other engineers.
  • Experience owning security projects end to end, from vendor selection through org-wide rollout, across multiple teams.
  • Experience securing high-value or high-throughput transaction systems.
  • Clear communication skills with the ability to explain risk plainly and drive findings to closure.
  • Crypto or blockchain security experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work from anywhere in the US and Canada.
  • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country office visit perk.
  • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees.
  • $1,000 work-from-home stipend.
  • Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • 100% paid 12-week parental leave.
  • Fertility benefits.
  • Opportunity for incentive compensation.
  • Base salary range of $180,000 to $210,000, plus additional on-target earnings potential and equity.

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