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title: 'Senior Security Engineer (Remote) at Lightning Labs'
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# Senior Security Engineer (Remote) at Lightning Labs

- **Company:** Lightning Labs
- **Location:** Lightning Labs
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2022-12-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning/21a591d9-d731-4f2d-935d-841d3a779ec9

## Job description

Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Security Engineer for the ongoing scaling of our growing engineering organization. This is a hands-on role that consists of devising and implementing policies and procedures around best practices in systems security.  The ideal candidate has experience in securing web, Bitcoin, and other public-facing network services, penetration testing, and both automated and manual source code security reviews. Due to the domain in which we work, experience with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network is extremely desirable as is knowledge of the cryptographic aspects involved in this area.

As we are an international organization, experience and comfort working with highly distributed teams is a must.  In addition, the ideal candidate should have a passion for our mission of bringing financial freedom to the world, as well as for Bitcoin as a whole. Although a part of the engineering organization, candidates in this position will work across functional team boundaries to ensure all aspects of the business are appropriately considered and covered by security best practices.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

- Designing and deploying active fuzzing, black+white box testing and penetration testing infrastructure for open source and production systems
- Performing security audits and review of both internal production systems as well as open source software which interacts with Bitcoin+Lightning in a security critical manner
- Provide mentorship and guidance to level up your teammates
- Creating global security policy, standards, guidelines, and procedures to ensure ongoing maintenance of security
- Overseeing security aspects of software release processes and infrastructure
- Determining security team requirements for future growth
- Developing and ensuring responsiveness of security incident management processes
- Performing risk management assessments

Preferred experience:

- At least 5 years prior experience in in systems security
- An ability to work with a high impact, fast-moving startup team
- Extensive knowledge of operating system and computer architecture internals
- Strong understanding of cryptography, protocol design and adversarial analysis
- Experience in reverse engineering and exploiting of cryptographic protocol (cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) systems
- Extensive expertise with professional software development experience in Go, Rust, C/C++, and/or Java
- Experience in security incident response
- Experience in security code review and vulnerability triaging
- Prior experience running an open source facing bug bounty program
- 2+ years management experience or experience as a senior decision maker
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure
- Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin and Lightning design principles
- Candidates with additional experience are welcome to apply as we are open to adjusting the role accordingly

## About Lightning Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lightning Labs develops open-source software for the Lightning Network, enabling faster, cheaper, and global layer-two bitcoin transactions. [[lightning.engineering]](https://lightning.engineering/)
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; specific headquarters not disclosed in available sources. [[lightning.engineering/join-us/]](https://lightning.engineering/join-us/)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available from search results
- **Founders**: Elizabeth Stark (CEO and Co-Founder) and Olaoluwa Osuntokun (CTO and Co-Founder). [[lightning.engineering/team/]](https://lightning.engineering/team/)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Bitcoin infrastructure / Lightning Network protocol development
- Target customers: Node operators, developers, businesses (B2B), and the broader Bitcoin community
- Mission: "Bring bitcoin to the next billion people" by building secure, scalable, and non-custodial layer-two financial services. [[lightning.engineering]](https://lightning.engineering/)

## Products & Services
- **[Lightning Terminal](https://lightning.engineering/)**: A web-based UI for managing Lightning nodes – includes a dashboard, network explorer, and liquidity tools.  
- **[lnd](https://lightning.engineering/)**: The leading open-source implementation of the Lightning Network protocol (Lightning Network Daemon).  
- **[Taproot Assets Protocol](https://lightning.engineering/)**: A protocol for issuing and transferring assets on the Bitcoin blockchain using Taproot.  
- **Verifiable, Non-Custodial Financial Services**: A suite of Lightning-based services such as swaps and channel management. [[lightning.engineering]](https://lightning.engineering/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Funding details not disclosed in available sources; however, the team continues to expand with multiple open engineering positions. [[jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning]](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in search results
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across engineering, product, and business development roles; new focus areas include AI integration and Taproot Assets. [[lightning.engineering/join-us/]](https://lightning.engineering/join-us/)

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep expertise in Bitcoin and Lightning Network (core contributors to the protocol and BOLT specifications).
- Open-source, community-driven development with a strong focus on security, decentralization, and non-custodial design.
- Comprehensive product suite covering node management, liquidity, and asset issuance. [[lightning.engineering]](https://lightning.engineering/)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the Lightning Network through better tooling and developer experience (e.g., Lightning Terminal).
- Advancing the Taproot Assets Protocol to enable new use cases on Bitcoin.
- Integrating AI to accelerate development and automate workflows. [[lightning.engineering/join-us/]](https://lightning.engineering/join-us/)
- Growing developer adoption via community outreach and evangelist roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Passionate, mission-driven team focused on bitcoin, cryptography, and open source. Emphasis on autonomy and impact. [[lightning.engineering/team/]](https://lightning.engineering/team/)
- **Work Environment**: Remote-first with team members across multiple time zones. [[lightning.engineering/join-us/]](https://lightning.engineering/join-us/)
- **Engineering Culture**: High technical bar; engineers work on core protocol development, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and shipping user-facing products. [[jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning]](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning)
- **Notable Perks**: Not specified in available sources, but the careers page highlights a focus on "security, privacy, and decentralization."

## Sources
1. [lightning.engineering](https://lightning.engineering/)
2. [lightning.engineering/team/](https://lightning.engineering/team/)
3. [lightning.engineering/join-us/](https://lightning.engineering/join-us/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning)

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