Security Director
$185,000–$230,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Oversee and improve security incident response processes for ZODL's software, supply chains, and infrastructure, managing interactions with external researchers and affected projects. Lead the team in maintaining high security standards across protocols and software, while acting as an internal adversarial party to discover flaws in specifications and implementations. Direct relationships with external security providers, including scheduling audits, validating auditor work, and leveraging feedback to enhance security posture. Communicate security flaws and mitigations to the Zcash and crypto communities with precision, addressing misinformation and ensuring staff are trained on physical and virtual threat response. Manage security infrastructure budgets, enforce least-privilege policies, and recruit top-tier talent to support ZODL's mission of onboarding billions of users to Zcash.
Required Qualifications
- A commitment to our users' privacy, and to the cypherpunk ethos of empowering freedom and autonomy by making secure, well-designed cryptography more widely accessible.
- Experience with open-source software development and overseeing the security aspects of implementing protocols to detailed specifications.
- A willingness to learn about cryptographic issues is essential.
- This is a management role, but we would expect a Director of Security to also have hands-on experience with developing secure and reliable code in modern programming languages similar to Rust, Swift, Kotlin, and Go.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
- The ability to work to deadlines and to hold themself accountable for short- and long-term success.
- Excellent leadership skills, with a talent for building consensus and fostering a collaborative environment.
- Ability to make crucial, informed decisions under pressure, upholding the security and privacy interests of Zcash users and ZODL staff.
- ZODL development is fully distributed with team members from Europe to the Americas to New Zealand, so you will need to be confident in working internationally across different contexts and time zones.
Desired Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of cryptography is not required, but is highly desirable.
- Blockchain-related experience is strongly favoured.
- Smart contract experience is beneficial to the extent that it provides perspective on secure design when Zcash interacts with other ecosystems.
- Administering or participating in security response processes.
- Cryptography and protocol design (we will also teach you on the job).
- Security analysis of protocols or algorithms; formal methods; high-assurance software or hardware development.
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