Security Operations Engineer at Art Blocks

Potential Projects

• In this role, you’ll be designing, implementing, and maintaining systems to help us operationalize our security in a way that makes it easy to make the secure decision.
• You’ll stay on top of evolving threat intelligence & vulnerability data to help Art Blocks respond to active and potential threats. 
• Expand and refine how we manage endpoints by identifying gaps, opportunities, and developing solutions that meet the needs of our growing organization. 
• Orchestrate and monitor our systems to detect & respond to threats
• Analyze our risk and work with multiple teams to uplevel our data management practices
• Enable instrumentation and monitoring of our products and services through individual and collaborative efforts
• Actively contribute to our vulnerability management program by aligning our monitoring and mitigation efforts align with known vulnerabilities
• Research and test new technologies that can improve our security posture.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain monitoring, detection, and reporting systems
• Document best practices and train employees on new ways of working
• Analyze our systems to identify opportunities to build defense in depth and deliver next steps that solve today’s problem while planning for scale in the future
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to deliver on reliable services, APIs and other critical systems as needed

Base Requirements

• We hire talented and motivated people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our team to reflect the world. If you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed here, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a creative, action-oriented problem solver, who wants to build great products, we want to hear from you.
• Security expertise & experience →  You have experience building tooling and systems that secure and monitor cloud environments. You can contribute to our codebase to raise the bar on security systems, tooling design, and cloud infrastructure.
• Monitoring and response → You have experience with vulnerability or attack frameworks and have used them to identify and mitigate gaps. You are comfortable playing multiple roles throughout the incident response lifecycle.

Tech Stack

• Your experience with our specific technical stack (or any specific stack) is of secondary importance to us. We care much more about finding candidates who have solid fundamentals, general aptitude, a desire to learn, and are compassionate and collaborative people to work with. We understand that it will take time to ramp up and are excited to consider non-traditional candidates who are excited about what we are building. That said, we’re excited about the technology we’re building. Our tech and productivity stack includes usage of:
• Next.js
• React
• Node.js
• Typescript
• GraphQL
• Hasura
• The Graph
• Vercel
• Solidity
• Infura, Alchemy
• Popular web3 libraries (ethers.js, web3.js)
• AWS
• Github
• Notion

Benefits

• Art Blocks offers comprehensive benefits, including:
• Remote work environment, flexible hours
• Competitive salary, bonus, and equity.
• Unlimited PTO: everyone is required to take a minimum of 20 days PTO per year, and you are welcome to take more (with the support and approval of your manager) 14 company days off in accordance with the holiday closure calendar
• 12 weeks parental leave
• In-person employee meet-ups at hosted team events as well as industry conferences
• Budget for WFH setup (laptop, monitor, headphones, keyboard, etc.) to make sure you have the hardware and tools needed to do great work.
• Participation in Employee Charitable Giving Program and pride to work at an organization that has given over $20 million to charitable causes in two years
• Healthcare benefits, including vision, dental, FSA, HSALife & disability insurance.