Staff Security Engineer, Walrus

Accountabilities:

• Serve as the primary security partner for the decentralized storage engineering team, providing architectural guidance and embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Lead security assessments for new platform features, identifying systemic risks, architectural weaknesses, and other high-impact security concerns.
• Develop actionable remediation strategies for complex security challenges and help engineering teams implement them effectively.
• Establish and promote a security-by-design approach, ensuring security considerations are incorporated before implementation begins.
• Contribute to broader infrastructure, application, and product security initiatives, providing generalist security oversight across interconnected systems.
• Build, deploy, and manage automated security tooling that improves vulnerability detection, analysis, and remediation.
• Leverage AI/ML capabilities, static analysis, dynamic analysis, and other advanced automation to address scalable security challenges and reduce repetitive work.
• Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize security investments and roadmap initiatives while balancing risk, product requirements, and development velocity.
• Mentor security and engineering professionals, establish technical direction, and promote security best practices across the organization.
• Balance hands-on technical execution with longer-term security strategy, helping mature security practices within a rapidly growing engineering environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional security engineering experience, with demonstrated Staff-level or equivalent technical leadership.
• Broad security expertise spanning infrastructure, application, and cryptographic security domains.
• Strong experience designing, building, deploying, and managing automated security tooling in production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI/ML, advanced static analysis, dynamic analysis, or comparable technologies to improve security outcomes at scale.
• Deep experience partnering with engineering teams during architecture and design to identify and mitigate high-risk security issues proactively.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, threat identification, risk assessment, and practical remediation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to operate independently, navigate ambiguity, and balance tactical security work with strategic planning.
• Strong mentoring and technical leadership capabilities, with the ability to establish standards and raise security maturity across engineering teams.
• Preferred: Technical understanding of decentralized storage, distributed systems, blockchain, or broader Web3 technologies.
• Preferred: Experience leading security transformations or implementing security-by-design frameworks in high-growth engineering organizations.
• Preferred: Experience balancing hands-on security engineering with long-term security strategy and organizational leadership.

Benefits:

• Base salary: $180,000–$264,000 for US-based employees, with individual compensation determined by skills, experience, education, and relevant training.
• Additional total compensation through tokens and equity, including eligibility for annual equity and token refresh grants.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellbeing programs, including family planning support, gender-affirming care, physical fitness and nutrition resources, mental health support, counseling, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, accident insurance, and other coverage options.
• Traveler insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Complimentary privacy protection service.
• Wellness stipend.
• Flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays per year.
• Team offsites and an annual company-wide retreat.
• Remote-first work environment with opportunities to collaborate across a globally distributed team.
• Opportunity to work on foundational decentralized infrastructure and contribute to the evolution of Web3 technologies.
• Background checks may be required as a condition of employment.