Senior Product Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you'll be hands on coding our product security across one or more product areas. You'll run security reviews, perform hands-on pentests, ship code and fixes directly into product repos, and drive SOC2 and risk-framework work across R&D - Engineering. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with AI Powered products at the intersection of blockchain data, AI and Security.

🏢 About Chainalysis

Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.

🎯 The Role

Product Security at Chainalysis keeps our SaaS platform — used by governments, banks, and crypto exchanges to investigate financial crime — secure by design. We partner directly with product and platform engineering on threat modeling, design reviews, penetration testing, and remediation of findings across our AWS and Kubernetes estate.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build Product Security across Chainalysis' SaaS offerings, partnering with product and platform engineering teams on design, code, and remediation
• Drive Security Code Reviews for new product launches — including custom penetration tests
• Provide security review and guardrails for internal AI platforms and coding agents (LLM gateways, prompt/response controls)
• Create threat modeling, secure design reviews, and static/dynamic code analysis across the SDLC
• Build security automation into our CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation for high-severity production security incidents

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of application security engineering experience
• Strong production coding ability in at least one of Java (preferred), TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Go — enough to perform deep code review, write proof-of-concept exploits, and contribute fixes directly into product repos
• Building security automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on penetration testing of production SaaS applications, including custom tests scoped to new product launches
• Identifying and remediating common web application vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
• Experience securing internal AI/LLM platforms and coding agents (model gateways, prompt/response controls, agent permissioning)

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in Web3, Blockchain or Digital Assets
• Experience building AI workflows, agents, and guardrailing

🎁 Benefits

Compensation: Tier 1 $148K – $247K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Tier 2 $130K – $217K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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