--- title: 'Senior Security Engineer, DeFi at Mysten Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-defi-mysten-labs-united-states-gnwrfp21a87r' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Senior Security Engineer, DeFi at Mysten Labs - **Company:** Mysten Labs - **Location:** United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mystenlabs/cd2d17ec-46a7-4f25-a5fe-aa9c51ff11b1 ## Job description Mysten Labs’ mission is to advance the internet through step-function improvements in what technology makes possible. We build foundational infrastructure and products that give people, businesses, and developers new ways to interact, transact, and create value. Our work spans on-chain finance and the emerging agent economy. Through Sui, Move, and our broader technology stack, we’re building the systems that make these experiences possible - from secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure to new ways for businesses and AI agents to interact. We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help protect the Sui ecosystem. You’ll uncover vulnerabilities, build monitoring tools, and assess economic risk across DeFi protocols. Working closely with external protocol teams and Mysten’s own DeFi products, including DeepBook, you’ll help address risks before they become incidents and strengthen security across the 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. ## Minimum 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. ## Preferred Qualifications - 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. - Experience building analysis or monitoring tools with LLM agents (Claude Code skills or comparable), and a clear sense of where models help and where deterministic tooling must do the work. - 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. - Publications, conference talks, CVEs, or bug bounty rankings. 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. Regarding the recent rash of technology job scams: Be aware that emails from genuine Mysten Labs group recruiters will always come from the @[mystenlabs.com](http://mystenlabs.com) domain or related subdomains (e.g., [mystenlabs.com/careers](http://mystenlabs.com/careers)). Remember: you can always verify positions on our job boards at [www.mystenlabs.com/careers](http://www.mystenlabs.com/careers). To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. 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. We raised a $300M Series B round from top Silicon Valley led venture funds like Jump Crypto, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Standard Crypto, NFX, Slow Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Samsung Next, Lux Capital, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of web3! ## About Mysten Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Mysten Labs builds foundational infrastructure for a decentralized internet, including the Sui blockchain, Move programming language, and related protocols. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first with offices in Greece, Switzerland, UK, South Korea, Japan, and more) - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Evan Cheng (Co-Founder & CEO), Sam Blackshear (Co-Founder & CTO), Adeniyi Abiodun (Co-Founder & CPO), Kostas Chalkias (Co-Founder & Chief Cryptographer), George Danezis (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Blockchain / Decentralized Web Infrastructure - **Target customers**: Builders, web3 enthusiasts, enterprises, and developers of decentralized applications (B2B, B2D) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To lay the foundations for a decentralized web stack suitable for mass adoption" – unlocking everything that web3 enables. ## Products & Services - **[Sui](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: A high-performance Layer-1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed for global adoption, delivering the benefits of web3 with the ease of web2. (Infrastructure / Blockchain) - **[Move](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: The native programming language for Sui, focused on safety, composability, and extensibility for building smart contracts. (Programming Language) - **[Walrus](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: A decentralized storage and data availability protocol. (Storage / Protocol) - **[DeepBook](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: An efficient DeFi foundation that unlocks financial innovation on Sui. (DeFi / Order Book) - **[Seal](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: Robust encryption & onchain access control for sensitive data. (Security / Privacy) - **[Enoki](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: infrastructure for seamless customer experiences (mentioned in context of transforming business with meaningful customer experiences). (Developer Tools / UX) - **[Kiosk](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: A decentralized system for commerce applications on Sui. (Commerce) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$336 million** (as of September 2022 Series B; includes $300M Series B, $36M Series A, and ~$11K venture round). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (led Series A), FTX Ventures, and 19 investors in Series B; also partnered with Qualco and xMoney (strategic alliance, May 2026). Sui processed over $1 trillion in stablecoin volume as of May 2026. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+20.8% year-over-year** (167 employees); operates in 25 countries; acquired Parasol (March 2025); Appointed ex-Goldman Digital Assets leader (May 2025); active hiring across 12+ open positions as of mid-2026. ## Competitive Advantages - **Core Differentiators**: - The **Move programming language** (originally developed at Facebook for Diem/Libra) offers superior safety and composability for smart contracts. - **Sui’s parallel execution** enables high throughput and low latency, aiming to onboard billions of users. - A **comprehensive product stack** (Sui, Walrus, DeepBook, Seal, Enoki, Kiosk) provides end-to-end infrastructure for web3. - **Scientific and engineering rigor** – the founding team includes veterans from distributed systems, cryptography, and compiler/VM research. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Achieving mass adoption of web3 through scalable, secure, and user-friendly infrastructure. Key initiatives include zero-fee stablecoins, gaming integrations, and data privacy (Seal mainnet launched September 2025). Building the “agentic web” and interoperability foundations. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Everybody carries the box” – a collaborative, no-silo environment focused on step-change advancements. Values include transparency, integrity, and thinking big. - **Remote/Hybrid**: **Remote-first** company with a global team; offers co-working opportunities, team offsites, and company-wide gatherings to stay connected. - **Interview Process**: Starts with phone interviews (45 min) covering background and interest; followed by virtual team interviews (four 45-min sessions) customized by role (systems design, coding, behavioral). Expect fast feedback (within 1 week). - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on “talent shouldn’t be limited by geographic location” and a stellar team of veteran innovators. ## Sources 1. [mystenlabs.com](https://www.mystenlabs.com/) 2. [mystenlabs.com/careers](https://www.mystenlabs.com/careers) 3. [mystenlabs.com/about](https://www.mystenlabs.com/about) 4. [linkedin.com/company/mysten-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mysten-labs) 5. 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