Head of Security (Solana)

Location: Remote, North America

Company

hirify.global is a developer platform on the Solana blockchain, providing infrastructure for crypto-powered applications used by customers including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom.

What you will do

• Lead security strategy and execution across infrastructure, cloud, bare-metal, and production systems.
• Own end-to-end incident response, including detection, runbooks, on-call readiness, and tabletop exercises.
• Establish security controls for identity and access management, secrets and key management, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and detection.
• Manage third-party and supply-chain risk, the compliance roadmap, customer security reviews, threat modeling, and the risk register.
• Partner with engineering to embed security into development and deployment without becoming a bottleneck.
• Hire, develop, and grow the security team while communicating risk to executives, engineers, and customers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of security experience, including securing high-availability, internet-facing infrastructure at scale.
• Strong engineering skills, including the ability to read and write code and investigate systems directly.
• Deep expertise in cloud security, bare-metal environments, and production systems.
• Hands-on detection and response experience, including leading through a real security incident.
• Experience building a security program or significantly scaling a security function.
• Experience securing developer products, APIs, or platforms, with a strong grasp of secrets and key management.
• Ability to move quickly, iterate, make sound decisions under pressure, and take ownership without relying on a large team or established tooling.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to partner with engineers and say no without becoming a blocker.
• Comfort working in a fully remote, async-friendly team and being based in North America.

Nice to have

• Experience leading a SOC 2 or similar audit.
• Prior security leadership experience at a high-growth startup.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, fully distributed work with flexibility to work where most effective.
• High-impact work supporting applications used across the Solana ecosystem.
• Ownership of critical initiatives with influence over architecture and product direction.
• Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and learning and travel support.
• Mission-driven environment focused on fast execution, ownership, and decentralized applications.