--- title: 'Head of Security at Morpho' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-security-morpho-paris-aad0r2vv27gh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Head of Security at Morpho - **Company:** Morpho - **Location:** Paris, France - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/morpho/ed97697e-2dd2-4b9e-b8b4-1a3d9c288db9/application **Skills:** Cloud security, Infrastructure security, CI/CD, Supply-chain security, Identity security, Application security, Threat modeling, Incident response, SOC 2, ISO 27001, Offensive security, Red/blue capabilities, Crypto ISAC, TIBER-style frameworks > Define and drive Morpho's security strategy across corporate, cloud, infrastructure, and application domains. Build and lead the security function, execute critical security work, and represent the organization to leadership and external partners. ## Job description ## About Morpho Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Apollo, Vaneck, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and 50 others to build an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing exponential adoption, with over billion in deposits on the network and used by institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, and Anchorage Digital and the largest crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as the open credit network, not just of DeFi, but of the world. ## Why Morpho Exists Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article [here](https://morpho.org/blog/why-morpho-exists/). Location: Paris or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team). About the role: As Head of Security, you'll define and drive Morpho's security strategy across the entire organization - corporate IT, cloud and infrastructure, application, supply chain, identity, incident response, threat intelligence, and counterparty security - and you'll build the team and function to deliver it. This is a hands-on leadership role: in the early days you'll personally do the work while you hire, and you'll stay close enough to the technical detail to earn the trust of a deeply technical organization. You'll also be Morpho's credible security voice, internally to leadership, and externally to the integrators, institutions, and ecosystem partners who depend on us. You'll partner closely with Engineering on infrastructure and deployment integrity, and with our Integration team, which works with various partners across the Morpho ecosystem. Responsibilities: - Own and continuously evolve Morpho's security strategy and roadmap across, cloud/infrastructure, application, supply-chain, identity, and operational security. - Build and lead the security function - hire, grow, and develop the team, recruiting skillsets across security operations and application security. - Oversight of the IT function - Stay hands-on. Personally execute critical security work - threat modeling, architecture review, control implementation, and incident command - while the team scales. - Set the governance architecture: a coherent security framework that ties tooling and controls together, rather than accumulating tools in isolation. - Own incident response end to end - runbooks, incident command, severity and escalation structure, and market communication during an event. - Build and run a counterparty security program for curators and partners - identity verification, screening, operational diligence, and bidirectional incident-coordination channels. - Lead Morpho's certification strategy (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001), meeting both the spirit and the letter sustainably. - Represent Morpho's security posture externally - to fintechs, financial institutions, and the broader ecosystem - and internally to executives. - Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Protocol, and Integrations, driving security outcomes through both direct ownership and influence. What Success Looks Like: First 30 Days - You've built a clear, independent picture of Morpho's posture, architecture, threat model, and in-flight work - and pressure-tested the existing strategy against it. - You've met the team and established working relationships with the people who own the surfaces you'll most depend on. - You understand the path-to-funds attack surface in depth and have an early, evidence-based view of the highest-severity risks and quick wins. - You know exactly where incident-response readiness stands today. First 60 Days - You've published a clearly prioritized security roadmap with clear sequencing, owners, and the rationale for what's deferred and aligned leadership behind it. - You've defined the team build-out plan and opened the first hire. - You're personally driving the top-severity gaps - identity and authentication enforcement, deployment guardrails, and a documented incident-response runbook among them. - You've set the governance framework and the certification path in motion. First 90 Days - Demonstrable progress closing the highest-priority gaps, with key controls enforced rather than optional. - A documented incident-response capability that's been validated by at least one tabletop exercise. - Hiring underway, and a clear operating rhythm established with Engineering, Protocol, and Integrations. - Morpho's external security posture is taking shape - trust surface, counterparty security program, and ecosystem engagement - and you're recognized internally and externally as Morpho's credible security voice. Must-have Experience & Skills: - 10+ years in security, several of them building or leading a security function, ideally at a crypto/web3, fintech, or financial-services company where security is core to the business. - Strong grasp of the crypto/web3 threat model - Proven experience building and growing a security team from a small base, recruiting across security operations and application/infrastructure security. - Deep, hands-on technical expertise across cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, supply-chain, identity, and application security - you do the work, not just direct it. - Owned incident response end to end, including incident command and external communication. - Sharp prioritization and the ability to galvanize action through hard and soft influence, including driving outcomes through teams you don't own. - Exceptional, organized, responsive communication - credible to executives and to external audiences from fintechs to Fortune 500 institutions. - Humble. Nice to Have: - An established network and public profile in the security or crypto-security community, and comfort representing security work publicly (talks, writing, framework contribution). - Offensive security depth, or experience standing up red/blue capabilities. - Familiarity with institutional and regulatory expectations and threat-sharing networks (e.g. Crypto ISAC, TIBER-style frameworks). - Taken an organization through certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent) ## Perks & Benefits We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning. ## Equal Opportunity We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment. ## About Morpho ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Morpho is an open, decentralized credit network that provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for businesses to build, embed, and scale onchain lending and borrowing products. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; last round: Series A+ led by Ribbit Capital) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Paul Frambot (Co-founder & CEO), Merlin Egalite (Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) / Onchain Lending Infrastructure - **Target Customers**: B2B — exchanges (e.g., Coinbase, Crypto.com), fintechs, banks, regulated institutions, and risk curators building lending/borrowing products. - **Mission Statement**: "Power human ambition with open access to capital." ## Products & Services - **Morpho Blue** *(Protocol/Infrastructure)*: A permissionless, immutable lending protocol with isolated markets (1 loan asset + 1 collateral asset per market). Serves as the foundation of the lending ecosystem. - **Morpho Vaults** *(Platform)*: Curated lending vaults that allow independent risk experts to build businesses around differentiated risk profiles, auto-allocating deposits across Morpho Markets. - **Morpho Optimizer** *(Optimization Layer)*: An optimization layer (now superseded by Morpho Blue) that initially improved interest rates for users on top of Aave and Compound. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held). - **Key Metric — Total Deposits**: Over $13B in deposits (as of early 2026), up from $5B during 2025. Active loans reached $4B+. RWA deposits grew to $400M by Q3 2025. - **Key Metric — Total Funding**: $69.2M in total funding across 4 rounds. - Seed (2021): $1.2M (while founders were still at university) - Series A (2022): $18M led by a16z crypto & Variant - Venture Round (2024): $50M led by Ribbit Capital - **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z crypto, Variant, Ribbit Capital, Pantera Capital. - **Notable Integrations (Business Customers)**: Coinbase (crypto-backed loans, its largest DeFi integration), Crypto.com, Gemini, Ledger, Lemon, Société Générale Forge, Bitget, and many other regulated institutions. - **Growth Signals**: User growth from 67,000 to 1.4M+ users (+2,000%+). Headcount grew 39.2% YoY to 52 employees, with 10 open roles in 2026. Expanding into institutional and regulated banking sector partnerships. ## Competitive Advantages - **Open & Permissionless but Secure**: Morpho is immutable, non-custodial, and permissionless, yet employs enterprise-grade security practices including tier-1 audits and a $2.5M bug bounty. Committed to formal verification. - **Flexible, Isolated Markets**: Unlike monolithic protocols (e.g., Aave), Morpho uses isolated, single-asset markets that can be composed into any risk profile, allowing depositors granular control over exposure. - **Liquidity Network Effect**: With $13B in deposits, Morpho provides the deepest onchain liquidity, creating a strong moat for attracting more builders and institutions. - **Top-Tier Backing & Adoption**: Backed by a16z, Variant, and Ribbit Capital, with integrations from the largest crypto exchanges globally — signaling trust and scalability. ## Strategic Focus - **Institutional Adoption**: Actively targeting banks, regulated institutions, and fintechs to embed onchain credit solutions. Société Générale Forge is a key strategic win. - **Real-World Assets (RWA)**: Growing the RWA deposit volume, which expanded from near zero to $400M in 2025. - **Geographic Expansion**: Operating in 12 countries (US, UK, Switzerland, Portugal, Singapore, NZ, etc.), with dedicated roles for APAC and Americas regions. - **Talent Acquisition**: Scaling the engineering and institutional sales teams aggressively, particularly for Protocol Engineers, Security Engineers, and strategic account managers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Values include "Justify Everything" (challenge all decisions with rationale), "Bias for Action," "Laser-Focused," and "Simplicity." The team expects high output but supports its talent with top compensation and autonomy. - **Remote-First with Global Offices**: Flexible work policy — remote or from their Paris headquarters. Remote employees get an allowance to visit Paris 3x a year. All employees have access to Spaces co-working offices globally (585+ locations). - **Compensation & Perks**: Base salary in top 10% globally. Full-time contributors receive MORPHO token grants. Health insurance worldwide. Professional development budget for courses and conferences. Relocation packages available for Paris. - **High-Impact Work**: Tackling fundamental problems in a nascent market — re-building the global credit system onchain. The engineering team is publicly highlighted as a core strength in the 2026 update. - **Hiring Process**: 3–6 weeks: (1) Talent Lead interview, (2) Manager interview, (3) Case study, (4) Co-founder interview. ## Sources 1. [morpho.org](https://morpho.org/) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/morpho-association) 3. [morpho.org/jobs](https://morpho.org/jobs) 4. [morpho.org/faq](https://morpho.org/faq/) 5. 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