Head of Security & Incident Response — Remote

BlockchainHQ; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Helius, a leading Solana blockchain developer platform, is hiring its first Head of Security. You will own security across the engineering platform, lead incident response, and guide risk management for a company operating critical infrastructure at scale.

You’ll report to the COO and Head of Engineering, and you will build and grow a security team while partnering with engineering to embed security from the ground up. This is a remote-first role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security, including experience securing high-availability, internet-facing infrastructure at scale.
• Strong engineering skills: you read and write code and can dig into systems.
• Deep expertise in cloud security, bare metal and production environments.
• Hands-on experience with detection and response, and you’ve led through a real security incident.
• Experience building a security program or significantly scaling a security function.
• Experience securing developer products, APIs, or platforms.
• Strong grasp of secrets and key management.
• Comfortable moving fast, iterating, and making good decisions under pressure.
• Pragmatic and high-ownership: you do the work and don’t wait for a large team or established tooling.
• Clear communicator who can partner with engineers and say no without being a blocker.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, async-friendly team.

Responsibilities

• Lead security at Helius, setting direction and owning execution across infrastructure, cloud, and production systems.
• Own incident response end to end: detection, response, runbooks, on-call readiness, and regular tabletop exercises.
• Establish a strong security posture across our engineering platform, including identity and access management, secrets and key management, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and detection.
• Review and manage third-party and supply-chain risk.
• Partner with engineering to embed security into how we build and ship, without becoming a bottleneck.
• Lead our compliance roadmap and respond to customer security reviews.
• Hire, develop, and grow the security team as we scale.
• Own the security strategy and roadmap, and maintain our threat model and risk register, prioritizing against real risk.
• Communicate clearly about risk with executives, engineers, and customers

Skills

Security leadership

Engineering skills

Cloud security

Detection & response

Security program building

APIs/platform security

Secrets management

Risk communication

Remote work

Job description

Helius, a leading Solana blockchain developer platform, is hiring its first Head of Security. You will own security across the engineering platform, lead incident response, and guide risk management for a company operating critical infrastructure at scale.

You’ll report to the COO and Head of Engineering, and you will build and grow a security team while partnering with engineering to embed security from the ground up. This is a remote-first role.