Engineering Lead (Web3)

TL;DR

Engineering Lead (Web3/Security): Owning the security posture of the L1 infrastructure and operations with an accent on SecOps, key management, and infrastructure hardening. Focus on designing secure signing ceremonies, driving vulnerability management, and building a robust incident-response capability for a high-performance blockchain.

Location: Remote (Global)

Company

hirify.global is a hyper-performance L1 Agentic Chain designed to enable real-time, autonomous, and fully decentralized products powered by AI agents.

What you will do

• Define and own the security posture of L1 infrastructure, including validators, RPC, and signing services.
• Establish and roll out organizational policies for access control, secrets management, and secure SDLC.
• Drive application and supply-chain security, including CI pipeline scanning and security reviews for agentic workflows.
• Design and operate multisig governance, signing ceremonies, and the full lifecycle of critical protocol keys.
• Build the security incident-response capability, including detection, triage, and blameless postmortems.
• Perform threat modeling and red-team exercises while coordinating external audits and bug bounties.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in security engineering and SecOps at scale.
• Hands-on expertise with Linux internals, networking, containers/Kubernetes, and IaC.
• Proven track record of defining security policies that are successfully adopted by engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of key management, including HSMs and signing workflows.
• Strong leadership in incident response, forensics, and detection.
• Foundational knowledge of cryptography as applied to blockchain and key management.

Nice to have

• Experience securing blockchain L1/L2 node and validator infrastructure.
• Knowledge of EVM, smart contract security, and DeFi attack surfaces (MEV, bridges, oracles).
• Background in red teaming, offensive security, or detection engineering.
• Experience with high-throughput or low-latency systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Agent-maximalist approach, utilizing AI as a multiplier for engineering velocity.
• Lean team environment with high individual impact, ownership, and autonomy.
• Remote-first work culture with a global team.
• Competitive compensation package including token incentives.
• Opportunity to contribute to a first-of-its-kind L1 with native AI inference.