Associate, Blockchain Security Engineer
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As an Associate Blockchain Security Engineer at Galaxy Digital, you will secure the on-chain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets. You join a hands-on role based in India, working closely with Engineering, Product, Protocol, and Infrastructure teams to identify and mitigate security risks across blockchain systems, smart contracts, and supporting applications.
What you'll do
- Participate in secure software design, architecture, threat modeling, and code reviews for blockchain and on-chain systems
- Perform security reviews and audits of smart contracts, including Solidity/EVM and Rust/Solana-based applications
- Assess blockchain-specific risks including smart contract vulnerabilities, protocol design flaws, and transaction security
- Assist teams with the mitigation of findings by assessing impact, proposing solutions, and providing technical guidance for implementation
- Develop secure design patterns, reusable security controls, and tooling for blockchain applications and supporting infrastructure
- Research emerging blockchain threats and mitigations, and leverage modern security and AI-assisted tooling to improve vulnerability discovery and code review
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience in security engineering, product/application security, blockchain security, or software development of security features
- Strong hands-on experience with blockchain technologies and smart contract security, including Solidity/EVM and/or Rust/Solana, secure coding, and in-depth code review
- Experience with secure SDLC practices and security testing techniques such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and fuzzing
- Strong familiarity with several of the following topics: key management, authentication and authorization, TLS and PKI, cloud security, container and Kubernetes security, infrastructure security, and network security
- Strong analysis skills, attention to detail, collaborative and solution-driven mindset, with strong verbal and written communication skills
Nice to have
- Direct exposure to liquid staking, tokenized assets, or similar digital asset protocols and architectures
- Published material on vulnerabilities/security bugs or meaningful security contributions within the Web3 community
- Familiarity with DeFi protocol security, MPC, multi-signature systems, key management, and custody architectures
What we offer
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
- Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry
- Employee Resource Groups
About Galaxy Digital
Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, headquartered in New York City with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The company delivers on-chain infrastructure connecting institutions to digital assets including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, while also developing and operating data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
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