Associate DeFi Growth Specialist conducting outreach and relationship building in the DeFi ecosystem. Focusing on integrations to facilitate growth and collaboration.
About the role
- Senior Security Engineer protecting Mysten Labs’ Sui blockchain DeFi ecosystem. Monitoring economic risks, auditing smart contracts, and preventing vulnerabilities across DeFi protocols.
Responsibilities
- Build and run continuous monitoring of the Sui DeFi ecosystem for security and economic risk
- Extend security team tooling, including precise static analysis tooling and proprietary agent skills
- Measure and drive compliance with DeFi security recommendations across supported protocols
- Run recurring compliance cycles, complete protocol report cards, validate security claims against on-chain reality, track remediation commitments, and escalate regressions or undisclosed incidents
- Hunt for critical vulnerabilities in high-TVL Sui protocols through full-package audits, variant analysis across forks, pre-execution review of multisig upgrade payloads, and incident forensics
- Serve as the security team's point of contact for external DeFi teams and Mysten's DeFi products, including DeepBook
- Conduct due diligence, coordinate incidents, and lead post-mortems
- Write findings, reports, and runbooks that are actionable for protocol engineers and understandable to non-technical stakeholders
- Ensure claims are traceable to bytecode, chain state, or data
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, smart contract security, or DeFi risk engineering
- Track record of building tools that ran in production and finding real vulnerabilities through audit findings, bug bounty reports, published research, or incident work
- Strong understanding of DeFi mechanics and failure modes, including lending markets, AMMs, concentrated liquidity, perpetuals, liquid staking, oracles, flash loans, and MEV
- Proficiency in TypeScript and Python
- Comfort with Rust
- Ability to write SQL over large datasets and work with blockchain indexers and data warehouses
- Experience reading smart contract code at source, bytecode, or disassembly level, or evident ability to learn it quickly
- Rigor in verifying claims against bytecode and chain state and documenting what was not verified
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to influence external teams without formal authority
- Interest in the web3 space required
- Employment contingent upon successful background check, potentially including employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information
- Sui and Move experience preferred
- Knowledge of recent DeFi exploit history on Sui and other chains preferred
- Experience building analysis or monitoring tools with LLM agents preferred
- Static or dynamic program analysis experience preferred
- Quantitative or economic modeling experience preferred
- Publications, conference talks, CVEs, or bug bounty rankings preferred
Benefits
- Tokens and equity compensation
- Eligibility to participate in annual equity and token refresh grant programs
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellbeing programs, including family planning support, gender affirming care, hormone replacement therapy, and physical fitness/nutrition apps
- Mental health support and counseling
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for financial/legal assistance and home life referrals
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Life insurance and accident insurance
- Traveler insurance
- 401(k)
- Complimentary privacy protection service
- Wellness stipend
- Flexible paid time off
- 11 paid holidays per year
- Team offsites and annual all-company retreat
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