Security Architect
On-siteBratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia or Prague, Prague, Czechia
Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia or Prague, Prague, CzechiaOn-siteFull TimeFintechSmall
Full TimeSmallFintech
Job Summary
Plan and execute security projects to evolve defenses against state-sponsored actors and supply chain attacks while managing on-call rotation for 24/7/365 coverage of $5 billion daily crypto trading volume. Lead threat modeling and risk prioritization for signing keys, exchange APIs, and proprietary strategies across 10+ exchanges, ensuring latency requirements coexist with robust security controls. Apply hands-on cloud security and AI tooling expertise to protect DeFi operations and quant models in a high-performance trading environment.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of cybersecurity and devops or relevant experience
- Familiarity with software development security: pipelines, artifact registries, supply chain attacks, dependency confusion, slopsquatting
- Hands-on Cloud security
- Solid, hands-on experience with AI tooling and their risks
- Current on the threat landscape: you know what's being exploited now, what defenses are effective, and what's still hype
- Clear, structured thinking about risk — threat modeling, prioritization, communicating tradeoffs to non-security people
- Self-directed. Manager of one https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one
- First hand experience with incident response
- Understanding of crypto fundamentals, — not necessarily a developer, but you need to reason about the risk surface
- DeFi experience and understanding
- Experience in trading, fintech, or any environment where security controls must coexist with latency requirements
- Hands-on Google Workspace security
- 10+ years of cybersecurity and devops or relevant experience
- smart contracts, and L2 protocols
- Has personally owned cloud security at a real production scale (AWS)
- Part of the job is on-call rotation
- During your on-call week, you may get pulled into an incident or an urgent question outside working hours
Desired Qualifications
- 10+ years of cybersecurity and devops or relevant experience
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