Engineering Lead - Security

At dYdX, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to build state-of-the-art decentralized technology that will redefine global financial markets. As the strategic leader of engineering efforts for both enterprise information security and product security organizations, the candidate will partner and coordinate security activities with related compliance, regulatory and quality organizations. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building and scaling high-quality security engineering teams and programs in high-growth environments, and will work directly with the founder and head of engineering to determine and execute on top-level security priorities.

• Serve as the strategic leader of engineering efforts for both enterprise information security and product security organizations
• Partner and coordinate security activities with related compliance, regulatory and quality organizations (e.g., Privacy, Ethics & Compliance, Regulatory Affairs)
• Proven track record of building and scaling high quality security engineering teams and programs in high growth environments
• Work directly with the founder and head of engineering to determine and execute on top level security priorities
• Serves as internal security consultant to the organization and monitors advancements in cybersecurity technologies
• Oversee the selection of testing, deployment, and maintenance for security hardware and software products as well as outsourced arrangements
• Participate in code and architecture reviews of major projects
• Mentor and guide engineers in career growth and day-to-day duties
• Aid in recruiting and retaining great engineering talent
• Partner with developers to continuously review and assess new protocol releases, identify the risks, and help provide solutions
• Assess and lead integrations of security partners and tools as needed
• Investigate events, triage potential incidents and work closely with our teams during these incidents to help drive response efforts
• Review new and existing system designs to ensure we have secure and reliable backend systems.
• Develop security training and guidance to internal development teams
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience and security engineering/cybersecurity experience
• Experience securing infrastructure hosted on cloud server providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with testing and screening security software and monitoring networks for security breaches
• Strong understanding of CS fundamentals
• Ability to write secure, efficient, high quality code
• Familiarity with Solidity, Go JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Express, WebSockets, Docker, AWS, Terraform
• Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies
• Interest in building out a team of security engineers (nice to have)
• Strong interest in decentralized finance (nice to have)
• Experience building blockchain applications or smart contracts (nice to have)
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact (nice to have)
• CS Degree or equivalent experience (nice to have)
• Preferred location NYC (nice to have)