Senior Application Security Expert
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As a Senior Application Security Expert at Coins.ph, you strengthen the funds and blockchain security of a global crypto exchange. You focus on securing exchange systems, wallets, big data platforms, and market-making infrastructure, while leading smart contract auditing and blockchain threat governance.
What you'll do
- Lead application security governance for core systems including trading, wallet, big data risk analysis, and market-making
- Perform web service log and API analysis, preferably leveraging AI
- Build monitoring and defense mechanisms for funds security; define baselines, compliance strategies, and incident response plans
- Identify and mitigate risks across the transaction lifecycle using big data and ML techniques
- Audit and automate detection of smart contract vulnerabilities
- Research blockchain attack vectors, develop detection rules, and deploy on-chain monitoring tools
What you bring
- A Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Information Security, Cryptography, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in application security, blockchain security, or financial risk control; exchange or fintech background preferred
- Strong knowledge of exchange funds flow logic and application security frameworks
- Hands-on experience with smart contract auditing tools such as Slither, Mythril, Echidna, and Foundry
- Skilled in big data analysis and risk modeling using Spark, Elasticsearch, Graph DB, and ML-based anomaly detection
- A strong offensive and defensive security mindset, cross-team collaboration skills, and the ability to drive governance into practice
- Proficiency in English and the ability to follow cutting-edge blockchain security research
About Coins.ph
Coins.ph is a global crypto exchange focused on securing funds and blockchain infrastructure.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Coins.ph has 5 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 2 in Legal & Compliance, 1 in Finance and 1 in Research. 40% are fully remote, most of the rest in Hong Kong. 3 were posted in the last 7 days.
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