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Senior Security Engineer, DeFi

Mysten Labs· Security
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Remote$165k - $225kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Security Engineer focused on protecting the Sui DeFi ecosystem, building monitoring tools, and assessing economic risk across DeFi protocols within Mysten Labs’ Sui ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Extend security team tooling, both precise static analysis tooling and proprietary agent skills.
  • 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.
  • Hunt for critical vulnerabilities in the highest-TVL Sui protocols and get them fixed before they are exploited: full-package audits, variant analysis across forks, pre-execution review of multisig upgrade payloads, and forensics after incidents anywhere in the ecosystem.
  • 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.
  • Write it down: findings, reports, and runbooks that a protocol engineer can act on and a non-technical stakeholder can understand, with every claim traceable to bytecode, chain state, or data.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, smart contract security, or DeFi risk engineering, with a track record of building tools that ran in production and of finding real vulnerabilities (audit findings, bug bounty reports, published research, or incident work).
  • Strong understanding of DeFi mechanics and their failure modes: lending markets (LTV, liquidation thresholds and bonuses, close factors, bad debt), AMMs and concentrated liquidity, perpetuals, liquid staking, oracles (staleness, confidence, TWAP, multi-source aggregation), flash loans, and MEV.
  • 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.
  • Experience reading smart contract code at source or the bytecode or disassembly level, or evident ability to learn it quickly. Move experience is a plus, not a requirement; Solidity or Rust smart contract experience transfers.
  • Rigor: you verify claims against bytecode and chain state, build known-clean checks into your tools, and say what you did not verify.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Security engineeringDeFi mechanicsTypeScriptPythonSQLSmart contract analysisCommunication
Nice to have:Rust

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision covered for you and your dependents; HSAs and FSAs.
  • 18 weeks of paid Parental Leave
  • Wellbeing programs and mental health support including access to counseling and EAP
  • Short and Long Term Disability coverage, Life Insurance, and Accident Insurance
  • Traveler Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Privacy protection service, Wellness stipend
  • Flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays per year
  • Team offsites and annual all-company retreat
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mysten Labs

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Mysten Labs is developing crucial infrastructure to power a more decentralized internet, transforming how people connect and share information online.

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