Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gauntlet builds the financial systems of the future. They are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to partner with the Head of Security in building, operating, and scaling their security program, focusing on securing systems in DeFi.
Responsibilities
- Threat model new product features and integrations and harden systems with effective controls
- Operate and evolve the application security toolchain and keep it high-signal for developers
- Own day-to-day security operations across the detection stack (EDR, SIEM, on-chain monitoring, identity, cloud): triage what fires, resolve what matters, and reduce noise
- Triage vulnerability and bug-bounty findings by real exposure, drive remediation, and support incident response end to end
- Take security tooling and projects from evaluation through org-wide rollout, collaborating across engineering, infra and other teams
- Automate repetitive, judgment-light security work with AI: vulnerability and AppSec workflows, access reviews, SOC 2 and audit evidence collection, vendor due diligence, and recurring reporting
- Build reusable AI components, Claude skills, and agents that engineering and other functions can adopt
Skills
- 5+ years in hands-on security engineering spanning product or application security and security operations
- Track record of technical security assessments of software and systems, including system hardening, security policy analysis and implementing effective controls
- An adversarial mindset: you think like an attacker and pressure-test assumptions, including your own
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript, working with Claude Code, Codex or similar AI tools
- Hands-on experience applying AI and LLMs to automation and building reusable tooling or components that other engineers adopted
- 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: you explain risk plainly and drive findings to closure
- Crypto/blockchain security experience
Benefits
- Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
- $1,000 WFH stipend
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation
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