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title: 'Senior Security Engineer at Gauntlet'
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# Senior Security Engineer at Gauntlet

- **Company:** Gauntlet
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/gauntlet/5df7d87c-08df-475b-8328-bf2b8169030e

## Job description

Join Gauntlet as a Senior Security Engineer, partnering with the Head of Security to build, operate and scale our security program. You'll work at the intersection of capital, risk and technology: securing the systems that power some of the largest and most sophisticated activities in DeFi. You'll own security projects across product, infrastructure and operations, designing controls, automation and detection capabilities that can withstand one of the most adversarial environments in software: billions of dollars in assets on-chain on public blockchains.

## About Gauntlet

Gauntlet builds the financial systems of the future. While much of onchain finance is focused on point solutions, we operate across the entire stack to offer best-in-class vault products. Today we serve over $1.5B in client TVL across some of the largest fintechs/neobanks, protocols, exchanges, and capital allocators in crypto — and, increasingly, traditional asset management. Our team brings together traditional finance and crypto-native expertise to deliver durable, sophisticated products for institutional clients moving onchain.

## What you'll do;

- Threat model new product features and integrations and harden systems with effective controls.
- Operate and evolve the application security toolchain and keep it high-signal for developers.
- Own day-to-day security operations across the detection stack (EDR, SIEM, on-chain monitoring, identity, cloud): triage what fires, resolve what matters, and reduce noise.
- Triage vulnerability and bug-bounty findings by real exposure, drive remediation, and support incident response end to end.
- Take security tooling and projects from evaluation through org-wide rollout, collaborating across engineering, infra and other teams.
- Automate repetitive, judgment-light security work with AI: vulnerability and AppSec workflows, access reviews, SOC 2 and audit evidence collection, vendor due diligence, and recurring reporting.
- Build reusable AI components, Claude skills, and agents that engineering and other functions can adopt.

## What you Bring;

- 5+ years in hands-on security engineering spanning product or application security and security operations.
- Track record of technical security assessments of software and systems, including system hardening, security policy analysis and implementing effective controls.
- An adversarial mindset: you think like an attacker and pressure-test assumptions, including your own.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript, working with Claude Code, Codex or similar AI tools.
- Hands-on experience applying AI and LLMs to automation and building reusable tooling or components that other engineers adopted.
- Experience owning security projects end to end, from vendor selection through org-wide rollout, across multiple teams.
- Experience securing high-value or high-throughput transaction systems.
- Clear communication: you explain risk plainly and drive findings to closure.

Bonus Points

- Crypto/blockchain security experience.

## Benefits & Perks;

- Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
- $1,000 WFH stipend
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.

The national pay range for this role is $180,000 - $210,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

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## About Gauntlet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gauntlet provides quantitative risk management and yield optimization infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125M led by SBI Holdings, closed July 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA (with remote options and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Tarun Chitra (CEO) and Rei Chiang (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: DeFi / Blockchain / Quantitative Risk Management / Asset Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – DeFi protocols, crypto exchanges, wallets, asset issuers, financial institutions
- **Mission**: “Driving adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future” by applying rigorous quantitative simulation and optimization to DeFi

## Products & Services
- **[Gauntlet Vaults](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)**: Full-stack, self-custodial yield strategies for institutions, rebalancing across lending, restaking, and multi-strategy vaults. Integrates with apps via APIs.
- **[Risk Management Platform](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about)**: Model-driven risk monitoring and simulation for protocols, covering over 400 million data points daily across a dozen L1s/L2s.
- **[Applied Research](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about)**: Published 40+ research papers (1,000+ citations) on crypto-native economics and risk, partnered with Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, Decibel, and more.
- **[Partner Solutions](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)**: Embedded yield for wallets (e.g., Privy, KAST) and treasury management (e.g., Utila, SCRYPT).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total Value Locked (TVL) in Gauntlet vaults: $1.3 billion (self-custodial)
  - Client Assets Protected: $42 billion
  - Assets under vault management: $1.6 billion+
  - 150+ institutional clients
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investor in Series C: SBI Holdings [$125M, July 2026](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)
  - Early backers include Paradigm, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures (inferred from earlier rounds, not explicitly listed in provided sources; we only have Series C disclosed)
  - Key partners: Morpho, Penfle, Aera, Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, Privy, KAST, Utila, SCRYPT
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Closed $125M Series C in July 2026, led by SBI Holdings, signaling strong institutional interest
  - Processed a $775M supply event in 10 days with full APY recovery (Oct 2025)
  - Expanded from pure risk management into yield vaults; now powering 500K+ users via KAST neobank

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quantitative rigor**: Founders bring deep experience from HFT, physics simulations, and self-driving vehicle marketplace modeling, applied to DeFi.
- **Proven track record**: 8+ years of managing risk for the largest DeFi protocols with no major capital loss events (across multiple market cycles).
- **Full-stack offering**: Combines risk management, yield optimization, and onchain infrastructure (via Aera) – rare in the industry.
- **Institutional-grade security**: Multi‑layer security for both onchain and offchain surfaces, audited by top firms (implied by “institutional-grade” on homepage).

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Series C led by SBI Holdings (Japan) indicates a push into Asian institutional markets.
- **Embedded yield**: Partnering with wallets (Privy) and neobanks (KAST) to bring DeFi yield to mainstream users.
- **Deepening protocol relationships**: Continued applied research and risk management for major DeFi primitives (Compound, Uniswap, Morpho).
- **Scale infrastructure**: Growing data pipeline (400M+ data points/day) and supporting more L1/L2 chains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Relentless focus” on quantitative optimization and rigorous research – a team of data scientists, Solidity engineers, economists, and HFT veterans from top firms and universities.
- **Remote & Office**: Fully remote-friendly with hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive salary, full benefits, and gym membership coverage. [gauntlet.network/careers](https://gauntlet.network/careers/)
- **Note on hiring**: Gauntlet uses AI tools to assist in resume screening but emphasizes human oversight in final decisions.

## Sources
1. [gauntlet.network/about](https://gauntlet.network/about/) – Founders, history, background
2. [gauntlet.network/careers](https://gauntlet.network/careers/) – Culture, benefits, remote policy
3. [jobs.lever.co/gauntlet](https://jobs.lever.co/gauntlet) – Current openings, AI hiring disclosure
4. [gauntlet.xyz/about](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about) – Detailed metrics, partners, research papers
5. [gauntlet.xyz](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/) – Corporate homepage, Series C announcement, vault data

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