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Job description
Join Nearfoundation as a Senior Security Engineer to lead security initiatives with a focus on IT and security workflows. Competitive salary and a clear path to leadership.
Requirements
### Requirements
- 7+ years in information security with strong IT engineering depth, including meaningful time as a senior IC owning programs end-to-end.
- Demonstrated ownership of SOC II Type 2 and ideally ISO 27001 readiness and audit cycles in a fast-moving environment.
- Deep hands-on experience across IAM, endpoint, and at least one cloud (AWS or GCP).
- Comfortable scripting (Python, Go, or Bash) and automating IT and security workflows.
- Practical experience with SSO/IdP platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, Entra), MDM/EDR tooling, and modern logging/SIEM stacks.
- Strong written communication — clear policy, clean post-incident reviews, credible audit narratives.
- Pragmatic about risk and process; calm under pressure; bias to action.
- Crypto or AI/ML exposure is a plus.
Conditions
### Why This Role
- Clear mandate, executive sponsorship, and real scope across IT and security in a fast-moving ecosystem.
- Senior IC role with strong path to broader security leadership as the program matures.
About Nearfoundation
NEAR Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the NEAR ecosystem and its open-source blockchain infrastructure. It focuses on enabling community-driven innovation and has recently positioned itself around a privacy-first AI ecosystem and user-owned onchain AI.