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Director of Security protecting Zcash wallets, protocols, and cryptographic infrastructure at ZODL. Leading incident response, audits, security policy, and proactive vulnerability mitigation across a distributed global team.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve ZODL and Zcash security and resilience standards
- Administer and improve security incident response for software, supply chains, and infrastructure
- Manage responses to vulnerabilities and coordinate with external security researchers and affected projects
- Communicate security flaws and mitigations to Zcash, cryptocurrency, and information-security communities
- Build relationships with projects sharing Zcash technology and improve security disclosure processes
- Manage external security assessment providers, audits, schedules, critiques, and follow-up actions
- Advise staff on securing devices and responding to physical and virtual threats
- Onboard staff to security procedures and administer offboarding to mitigate access misuse
- Direct acquisition and maintenance of security infrastructure, devices, and software
- Budget annual security spending in line with product and company roadmaps
- Document security policies and ensure permissions follow least-privilege principles
- Support secure use of cloud computing solutions
- Ensure compliance with applicable security-related regulatory requirements and data protection law
- Work with Engineering and QA on processes, techniques, and training to prevent bugs
- Oversee proactive mitigations for software, protocol, infrastructure, and supply-chain vulnerabilities
- Collaborate on cryptographic code assurance and limiting leakage of user-activity information
- Prioritize security mitigations and refine processes for handling low-impact issues
- Review and reprioritize the security issue backlog
- Develop and maintain specifications supporting security analysis of the Zcash protocol
- Monitor developments in the wider Zcash community
- Recruit and onboard security-focused talent
- Act as the primary owner of security incident response and an internal adversarial reviewer of Zcash specifications and software
Requirements:
- Commitment to user privacy and the cypherpunk ethos of empowering freedom and autonomy through secure, well-designed cryptography
- Confidence working internationally across different contexts and time zones
- Experience with open-source software development
- Experience overseeing security aspects of implementing protocols to detailed specifications
- Deep knowledge of cryptography highly desirable
- Willingness to learn about cryptographic issues essential
- Management experience and hands-on experience developing secure, reliable code in modern programming languages similar to Rust, Swift, Kotlin, and Go
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work to deadlines and maintain accountability for short- and long-term success
- Excellent leadership skills and ability to build consensus and foster collaboration
- Ability to make crucial, informed decisions under pressure
- Blockchain-related experience strongly favoured
- Experience administering or participating in security response processes desirable
- Experience with cryptography and protocol design desirable
- Experience in security analysis of protocols or algorithms, formal methods, or high-assurance software or hardware development desirable
Benefits:
- Equity
- Flexible, remote-first work culture from anywhere in the world
- Semi-annual company-wide off-site meetups across the globe
- Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) with 100% of premiums paid by ZODL for full-time employees based in the U.S.
- Annual employer HSA contributions for full-time employees based in the U.S.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution for full-time employees based in the U.S.
- Paid Time Off and Vacation policy for full-time employees based in the U.S.
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