Senior Security Engineer, AI & Crypto Systems

Jito Labs, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jito Labs, Inc. is seeking a senior security-minded engineer to own a broad operational and technical scope, reporting to the Head of Security. You will triage access requests, run security reviews, and build testing frameworks for scalable security across the company.

You will contribute to identity and access management, software supply chain monitoring, and external pen-test coordination while maintaining strong documentation and autonomous work habits on a small team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with a strong software engineering foundation.
• Experience in product or application security beyond infrastructure.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Rust preferred).
• Experience leading security reviews on production systems.
• Ability to build security tooling from scratch and automate processes.
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts and tooling.
• Interest in AI security with adversarial testing tooling.
• Experience in web3/crypto/DeFi contexts.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning and lifecycle management for IAM on critical systems.
• Security reviews including threat modeling, code review, fuzzing, and testing.
• Triage and remediation tracking for bug bounty findings.
• Develop AI security tooling and adversarial testing frameworks.
• Monitor software supply chain for malicious packages beyond CVE scanning.
• Coordinate external penetration tests and remediation efforts.
• Gather compliance evidence as requirements emerge.

Skills

Software engineering

Product security

Threat modeling

Secure design review

Vulnerability testing

Whitebox testing

Security tooling

Automation

Web3/DeFi experience

Identity and access management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Rust

Go

C++

Python

Job description

Jito Labs, Inc. is seeking a senior security-minded engineer to own a broad operational and technical scope, reporting to the Head of Security. You will triage access requests, run security reviews, and build testing frameworks for scalable security across the company.

You will contribute to identity and access management, software supply chain monitoring, and external pen-test coordination while maintaining strong documentation and autonomous work habits on a small team.