Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We've built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over $105 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide.
The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.Alchemy recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake. Previously, Alchemy raised from a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the founders and executives of leading organizations.Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.
The Role
Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. That's a lot of software to cover. As an application security engineer at Alchemy, you'll be hardening one of the most sophisticated and high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain world. You'll focus on designing, building, and deploying application security tools to protect our platform.
Responsibilities:
- Integrate dynamic application security testing (DAST) and static application security testing (SAST) into our CI/CD pipeline
- Discover, prioritize, and remediate technical risks on features, products, infrastructure, and acquisitions
- Develop and own best practices for application security, development, and deployment
- Identify, triage, and mitigate vulnerabilities in our vulnerability management program.
- Advocate security through partnering with and training other engineers, PMs, and others.
What We're Looking For:
- 2-5 years of relevant industry experience in software engineering, ideally specializing in security or operations
- Deep understanding of web security, TLS/SSL, web authentication, and applied cryptography
- Experience with threat models and industry standard security tooling
- Experience with AWS technologies is a plus
- Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
- Experience working with startups
- Experience working in Web3
- A hustler mentality, founding a company or building side projects is a plus!
