Security Engineer

Framework Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Andalusia Labs is seeking a talented Security Engineer to secure innovative products from conception to production. This role offers the ability to enhance technical skills in blockchain while collaborating with a passionate team.

Responsibilities include leading security initiatives, reviewing code, and investigating security incidents. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in backend engineering and cybersecurity, along with experience in smart contract security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering and security engineering/cybersecurity experience.
• 2+ years of experience in protocol and smart contract security.
• Ability to work autonomously and develop secure software.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with founders and engineers to execute security priorities.
• Lead enterprise information security and product security.
• Participate in code and architecture reviews.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Security engineering experience

Protocol and smart contract security

Infrastructure security on AWS, GCP, Azure

Testing security software

Building on Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos

Clear communication

Tools

Python

Solidity

Go

Rust

Job description

Andalusia Labs is building foundational economic infrastructure for programmable global markets, connecting capital, computation, and coordination across the internet. Our work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, finance, and machine intelligence, with the goal of growing the world’s programmable GDP.

Our team has shipped massively scalable systems and products at Coinbase, Google, AWS, Microsoft, X, TikTok, Goldman Sachs, and high‑frequency trading firms. We are backed by Coinbase, Mubadala, Lightspeed, Bain Capital, Pantera, Framework, Digital Currency Group, Proof Group, Nima Capital, Naval Ravikant, Arthur Hayes, and founders, GPs, and executives from organizations like Founders Fund, Google, and Coinbase.

Role

We are looking for a talented and driven Security Engineer who is passionate about securing innovative products from 0 to production. As a Security Engineer, you will build tooling and platforms to secure existing and new products. You will work closely with the founders, engineers, and other cross‑functional partners to secure new products and platforms to market. This is an amazing opportunity offering you the ability to learn new technical skills in blockchain and work with an amazing team of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the founders, engineers, and other cross‑functional partners to execute critical security priorities
• Own and lead enterprise information security and product security
• Partner with developers to continuously review and assess new code releases, identify the risks, and help provide solutions
• Participate in code and architecture reviews of major projects
• Investigate events, triage potential incidents, and work closely with our teams during these incidents to help drive response efforts
• Conduct open‑ended research around cutting‑edge blockchain technologies

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience and security engineering/cybersecurity experience
• 2+ years of experience in protocol and smart contract security
• Experience securing infrastructure hosted on cloud server providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience testing and screening security software and monitoring networks for breaches
• Experience building on Ethereum, Solana, or Cosmos
• Highly autonomous, ability to design and develop secure software with minimal guidance
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and across the product engineering stack
• Clear written and verbal communication

Bonus

• Experience in Python, Solidity, Go, or Rust
• Experience in incident response, deployment safety, or DevSecOps
• Experience breaking complex smart contract & client systems into modular components to limit blast radius of security vulnerabilities
• Experience in financial engineering and/or capital markets microstructure
• Founded a company
• Experience working with startups