Mysten Labs
Senior Security Engineer, DeFi
USA (Remote) · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Ability to write SQL over large datasets and to work with blockchain indexers and data warehouses. - Experience reading smart contract code at source or the bytecode or disassembly level, or evident ability to learn it quickly.
- Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, which may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information.
Responsibilities
- Build and run continuous monitoring of the
- Measure and drive compliance with the
- Build and run continuous monitoring of the Sui DeFi ecosystem for security and economic risk: oracle issues, misconfigurations/bad economic parameters, solvency and bad-debt exposure under price shocks, liquidation capacity against on-chain liquidity depth, accounting-versus-positions reconciliation, invariants.
- Measure and drive compliance with the DeFi security recommendations across supported protocols: run the recurring compliance cycle, fill the protocol report card, validate security claims (audits, custody, upgrade governance, oracle dependencies) against on-chain reality, track remediation commitments, and escalate when a protocol regresses or fails to disclose an incident.
- Partner with the ecosystem and finance owners of the process.
- Be the security team's point of contact for external DeFi teams and for Mysten's own DeFi products such as DeepBook: due diligence, incident coordination, and post-mortems that feed back into the recommendations and the monitors.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and Python, and comfort with Rust.
- Ability to write SQL over large datasets and to work with blockchain indexers and data warehouses.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to influence external teams you have no formal authority over
- Interest in the web3 space is required.
Nice to have
- Sui and Move experience: the object and capability model, package upgrades and version gates, programmable transaction blocks, the Sui GraphQL and gRPC APIs.
- Knowledge of the recent DeFi exploit history on Sui and other chains: named incidents, oracle compromises, and the defect classes behind them.
- Static or dynamic program analysis experience: taint analysis, call graphs, symbolic execution, fuzzing, formal verification.
- Quantitative or economic modeling experience: stress testing, liquidity modeling, risk parameters for lending markets.
- Remember: you can always verify positions on our job boards at www.mystenlabs.com/careers http://www.mystenlabs.com/careers.
- All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers.
- Here at Mysten Labs, you'll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring the next billion users to web3.
- Experience reading smart contract code at source or the bytecode or disassembly level, or evident ability to learn it quickly.
Skills
- Mysten Labs' mission is to advance the internet through step-function improvements in what technology makes possible.
- Our work spans on-chain finance and the emerging agent economy.
- Publications, conference talks, CVEs, or bug bounty rankings.
Company info
- We're looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help protect the Sui ecosystem.
- Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world.
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