Security Engineer, Product Security

📋 Job Overview

As a Product Security Engineer, you will contribute to the security of Chainlink's products by building and reviewing security systems. This role combines hands-on software engineering with the identification and evaluation of security risks, enabling stronger security decisions throughout development. You will work within the Product Security team to deliver reliable security-focused engineering solutions.

🏢 About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.

🎯 The Role

You will contribute to the security of Chainlink's products by building and reviewing security systems. This role combines hands-on software engineering with the identification and evaluation of security risks, enabling stronger security decisions throughout development.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain security systems that strengthen the security of Chainlink's products.
• Identify security vulnerabilities and potential attack paths through systematic technical reviews of existing systems.
• Improve the reliability and maintainability of security-focused software through high-quality implementation and testing.
• Evaluate security risks and engineering tradeoffs to inform technical decisions and reduce potential vulnerabilities.
• Deliver security engineering solutions from implementation through deployment, incorporating findings from technical reviews.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated software development experience, including writing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality code.
• Hands-on programming experience in Rust or Go, with the ability to demonstrate effective implementation and problem-solving.
• Experience designing, building, or implementing security systems, with demonstrated understanding of security considerations in technical design.
• Proven experience reviewing security systems, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and evaluating technical risks.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• A portfolio of prior engineering work, including publicly accessible code contributions or repositories demonstrating software development capability.
• Demonstrated engagement with security engineering through previous technical work, research, or security-focused projects.
• Experience critically evaluating systems to identify security weaknesses, attack paths, and potential improvements.
• Previously developed and shipped security products, with the ability to explain implementation decisions and technical tradeoffs.
• Experience developing or reviewing systems within Web3 or blockchain environments.
• Previous ownership of large engineering projects or experience leading small technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with security engineering for AI pipelines or AI-based systems.

🎁 Benefits

Annual cash range: $150K – $200K (Zone 2), $90K – $125K (Zone 3). The estimated cash compensation for this role is based on job-related factors including relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Chainlink Labs follows a zone-based compensation model. In addition to competitive cash compensation, Chainlink Labs provides long-term incentives and comprehensive benefits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Chainlink Labs is a remote-first organization and employment eligibility is contingent upon residing in an approved hiring jurisdiction. Team members may work outside their primary country of legal residence for a maximum of 90 days per calendar year. Please discuss your current location, legal residence, and work authorization with your recruiter during your initial conversation. Unless otherwise stated for a specific role, we require working hours that overlap with Eastern Time (ET).