The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities, compensation, and company information, though some details on processes and seniority could improve it.
Job description
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Responsibilities
- Build security tools and controls that are deployed across the company
- Design, develop, and deploy new core security features to public Chainlink products like the Chainlink core node
- Define new processes and systems that make attacks on our networks hard to execute and easy to detect
- Immerse yourself in Chainlink’s upcoming engineering and non-engineering projects and ensure security is fundamental to their design and functionality
- Help define, shape, and achieve the company’s broader security goals
Requirements
### Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience in Go or Rust
- Experience in a security related function
- Experience building security software or securing enterprise systems
- Comfortable with Unix operating systems (including macOS)
- Ability to adapt to fast changing environment and set of technologies
### Desired Qualifications:
- Experience writing or auditing Solidity
- Experience auditing or securing frontends (React, NPM)
- Strong understanding of cryptography, including concepts such as TLS, FIDO, encryption, and public key cryptography
- Familiarity with security analysis tooling and frameworks
- Enthusiasm for the Ethereum (and other EVM compatible networks) with experience in tooling development, hardware wallets, and deployments
- Experience working on open source software with a GitHub history to prove it
Conditions
- All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
- Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).
- We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes.
- Commitment to Equal Opportunity: Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the industry-standard decentralized oracle platform that connects blockchains with real-world data, offchain computation, and cross-chain interoperability. The platform powers verifiable applications across DeFi, banking, global trade, and gaming, having enabled over $20 trillion in transaction value.
Web3, Blockchain, DeFi, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), FinTech· 200-1000· New York, NY, United States· Founded 2017· https://chain.link/?ref=sailonchain.com