Security Engineering Manager/Sr. Manager Full Time (Remote)

Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness.

CertiK is one of the fastest growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security and has become a true market leader. To date, we have collectively worked with over 1700 enterprise clients, helped secure over $90 billion worth of digital assets, and detected over 23,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz. Our Q1 2021 revenues have more than quadrupled the revenue of the full 2020 year. Since Q1 2020, our team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talents located worldwide.

CertiK just raised over $60 million in Series B and B+ funding rounds in 2021. Our investors include top VCs like Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and Hillhouse Capital as well as industry leaders like Coinbase Ventures and Binance.

About You

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead CertiK’s security engineering team. Intersecting cybersecurity and blockchain, CertiK’s security offerings include security consulting, security reviews, security auditing of smart contracts and blockchains, verification of smart contracts, penetration testing, and more. This role requires strong/ hands-on technical expertise along with excellent leadership skills. You will play a meaningful role in growing and developing the security engineers into a healthy and high-performing team, continuously improving our security engineering practices, and delivering state of the art technology. As a result, you will have a direct and measurable impact on the future growth of CertiK.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the security engineering team is adequately resourced, developed and equipped to meet business needs
• Provide technical leadership and oversee planning and control process in the security engineering team
• Coach, mentor, and lead team members; facilitate best practice sharing within the team
• Keep track of blockchain security technology development and leading a team to develop needed tools and software for our security product and services.
• Cultivate a healthy, collaborative engineering culture that’s in line with our values
• Initiate and drive continuous improvement activities; Develop, implement and improve relevant processes, policies and procedures to improve effectiveness across the security engineering function

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information security, or related disciplines
• At least 3 years of experience in the blockchain smart contract development and have strong interests in software security; or at least 5 years of software development experience in cyber security or backband
• At least 3 years of recent experience leading an engineering team
• Experienced in threat and vulnerability management, penetration testing and SecOps (intrusion detection, security logging, malware analysis, and forensics)
• Successful track record of building high performing, healthy, and sustainable teams that addressed increasingly complex technical and organizational challenges
• Have a passion for Solidity, a deep understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), distributed computing, and security
• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in dealing with the cultural diversity of a global business environment

Bonus Points

• Experience working in a tech start-up or scale-up
• Passionate about Cryptocurrency/Defi/Blockchain
• Experience in Rust