Senior Infrastructure Security Engneer

Blockchain.com is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer to join our Security team as we tackle some of the most interesting problems in the crypto space, like how do we securely scale a distributed financial platform that touches millions of people a day.

At Blockchain.com, Security is a mindset and a set of engineering approaches to better protect stakeholders, users and systems by building our creative engineering solutions to hard, sometimes previously unseen problems. The Security team is responsible for the big picture of how systems are designed for Security, and we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices aimed at achieving  proactive identification of potential threat actors combined with in-depth investigation of security issues into iterative improvement are key to both product security and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work.

Security at Blockchain.com is a work in progress - we are looking for an experienced, Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer to expand our Security platform and provide leadership across the Security and the broader engineering team. Are you ready for a challenge?

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Work closely with Security, SRE and Engineering teams to identify improvements in operational processes and improve the overall Security posture.
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities and lead the adoption of the “Security by design” principle.
• Ensure best practices are automated and enforced by default.
• Build operational resilience in a hybrid environment and contribute to the creation and implementation of the Infrastructure Security strategy.
• Support Delivery working closely with Security leadership, Architecture and SRE teams to identify risk and implement scalable secure solutions.
• Build and implement tooling to validate and and enforce secure baselines for asset inventory, deployments and releases, and cluster and images configurations.
• Provide technical guidance in the creation of a Security governance and compliance framework to manage and monitor Security controls.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Proven experience implementing Security in highly regulated hybrid environments.
• Extensive knowledge of secure standards and practices to build defence in depth. Experience with GCP is a plus.
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions to enforce account segregation and MFA and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Experience with Okta is a plus.
• Knowledge of Security monitoring techniques and tools to provide actionable events to trigger automated detection and containment and ensure traceability across the entire stack.
• Experience building and implementing solutions to resolve Security gaps cloud providers do not offer.
• Experience and awareness of IT architectural governance, standards, and methodology (CIS, CSA, NIST, ISO27001, SOC2).
• Strong focus on automation in at least one programming language. Python and Go are preferred.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Apple equipment.
• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company.

APPLICATION

• LinkedIn profile.
• Link to github, stackoverflow, personal website and/or blog (if applicable).
• Favorite GIF

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