Ethena Labs

DeFi

Staff/SeniorSecurityEngineer-DeFi

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The Brief

“Staff/Senior Security Engineer - DeFi at Ethena Labs. Skills: Solidity, DeFi protocols, Security Engineering. Own signing regime design. evolve pre-signature verification workflows”

What You'll Achieve.

lead our signing and treasury security program; own the verification layer; securing defensible audit trails; robust infrastructure; controls built to scale; ensuring every whitelisting or approval action is checked; keep it integrated with our SOC 2 incident-response workflows; keep our risk register current; automated reconciliation between on-chain activity and accounting systems

Industry & Context.

DeFi
Problems you'll solve

rigorous verification

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Mastery of Solidity, fluent in tools such as Tenderly, Foundry-based simulation, trace analysis, Deep practical experience with Gnosis Safe, Coinbase Prime, Anchorage, Fireblocks, understanding of the operational failure modes inherent in browser-based custodian extensions and hardware wallet signing flows, practitioner-level knowledge of DeFi protocols like Aave, Morpho, Stargate, security-first mindset, vigilance disposition, Proven ability to explain technical risks to non-technical stakeholders, self-starter comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end, producing high-quality, audit-grade documentation

Nice to Have

understanding risk parameters, oracle structures, bridge message-passing mechanics

What You'll Do.

Own signing regime design

evolve pre-signature verification workflows

Manage address and contract allowlist system

Operate real-time monitoring

Run technical reviews

Continuously verify ERC-20 approval hygiene

Produce documentation of controls

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

partner closely with our core DeFi and trading teams; partner with Finance

Communication Scope

explain technical risks to non-technical stakeholders

Full Job Description

## Description Who We Are and What We are Doing: Ethena Labs is actively building and deploying a suite of groundbreaking digital dollar products aiming to upgrade money into the internet era. Our flagship product, USDe, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets, and takes the novel approach of using a delta-neutral hedged basis strategy to maintain its peg. This product scaled from zero to $15b in 18 months. Expanding on this, iUSDe is designed specifically for traditional financial institutions, incorporating necessary compliance features to enable them to access the crypto-native rewards our protocol generates, in an institutional-friendly manner. Ethena has also developed USDtb: a fiat backed GENIUS compliant stablecoin in partnership with BlackRock which has scaled to ~$2b. These products are also offered in a whitelabel stablecoin offering where any application, chain, wallet or exchange can launch their own stablecoin on Ethena's back-end infrastructure. Through these offerings, Ethena Labs is not just creating new financial products; we are building the foundational infrastructure for a more open, efficient, and interconnected global financial system. Open job offerings will be focused on two new major product lines coming to market in the next few months. Join us!! The Role  We're hiring a Staff/Senior Security Engineer to lead our signing and treasury security program across wallets and custodian accounts. This is a high-impact, mission-critical role at the core of our business. Operating within the security department, you will partner closely with our core DeFi and trading teams to provide an objective security perspective while engineering safe, streamlined operational workflows. Your mission is to own the verification layer between operator intent and signature: independently confirming destination addresses, approvals, and calldata against on-chain truth, never just what a UI displays. The work bridges complex on-chain security with daily operati

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