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title: 'Solutions Consultant, Digital Assets at CertiK'
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# Solutions Consultant, Digital Assets at CertiK

- **Company:** CertiK
- **Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/certik/90a1766e-ab70-4303-9819-1d9f9178e55d

## Job description

## About the Company

Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia University and Yale University, CertiK is a leading Web3 security company focused on securing blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications through cutting-edge security research, formal verification, and AI-powered technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides end-to-end security solutions including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance services for some of the largest projects in the digital asset ecosystem. Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation.

## About the role

CertiK works with banks, regulators and regulated financial institutions that adopt digital assets. We build regulatory technology for these markets, and we are hiring a solutions consultant to be CertiK's presence with clients across the Middle East. You will meet with banks, VASPs and regulators, present our products and services, learn their problems, and lead consulting-style engagements to solve them. This is a forward-deployed role. You work from the client's side of the table, embedded with compliance and risk teams at banks, VASPs and regulators in the UAE and neighbouring markets when an engagement calls for it, owning the relationship on the ground. What you learn there sets the direction for Product and the commercial approach.

## What you'll do

- Spend extended periods on site with compliance, risk and innovation teams at banks, VASPs, custodians and regulators in the UAE and wider region

- Run discovery with clients and prospects: understand their workflows, tools, pain points and regulatory obligations, including the reason behind each request, and document them in the client's own words

- Bring findings back to Product in a form that shapes the roadmap and the sales approach

- Partner with Business Development in client meetings and regulator conversations: BD owns the commercial relationship, you own the solution and the follow-up on the ground

- Present CertiK's products and services clearly to senior client teams, and turn pain points into scoped proposals with clear deliverables and timelines

- Deliver advisory engagements, including licensing readiness reviews, gap analyses, technical due diligence, digital asset strategy assessments, workshops and reports

- Represent CertiK at industry events and regulator meetings in the region

- Coordinate with CertiK teams in the US, Europe and Asia across time zones

## Requirements

- 3+ years in a client-facing role such as consulting, solutions or business development, or in a compliance, risk or regulatory role at a financial institution or VASP

- Experience working with or inside banks, VASPs or other regulated financial institutions, whether in-house or through consulting or advisory engagements; you understand how a compliance or risk function runs day to day

- Available to be based at client sites for weeks at a time, with regular travel across the GCC and occasional travel beyond it

- Knowledge of bank regulatory compliance and technology

- Professional writing and presentation skills: produces client-ready reports and presents them to senior compliance, risk and executive audiences

- Operates independently: runs a client relationship and an engagement end to end with light supervision

- Location: Dubai / UAE. Frequent on-site time with clients across the region.

Bonus points

- Knowledge of VARA, ADGM, DFSA or central bank licensing regimes

- Experience with VASP licensing, regulatory examinations or compliance remediation

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## Experience with compliance, risk or surveillance software

- Big 4 or financial services consulting background

- Arabic language skills

- Existing relationships with compliance, risk or innovation leaders across GCC banks, VASPs or regulators

This role must be performed outside the United States. We are unable to consider candidates who will work from within the U.S.

## About CertiK

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CertiK is the largest Web3 security platform, providing end-to-end audit, compliance, and monitoring services for blockchain projects and financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $303.7M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017 (incorporated as Certified Kernel Tech LLC; LinkedIn lists 2018)
- **Founders**: Prof. Zhong Shao (Yale University) and Prof. Ronghui Gu (Columbia University)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Blockchain Security, Cybersecurity, Web3 Infrastructure, Compliance & Risk Management
- Target customers: B2B – crypto exchanges, DeFi protocols, stablecoin issuers, custodians, enterprises adopting DLT, and public blockchain ecosystems (e.g., Aptos, Ripple, Sandbox, Polygon, BNB Chain, TON)
- Mission/Purpose: “Security, compliance, and risk management for every stage of your Web3 journey” – from launch to scale, enabling projects to build with confidence, integrity, and real-time insights.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Contract Audits**: Manual code review combined with AI‑powered analysis and optional formal verification; supports Solidity, Rust, Go.
- **Formal Verification**: Proprietary hacker‑resistant kernel technology (CertiKOS) derived from academic research at Yale and Columbia.
- **Penetration Testing**: In‑depth assessment of off‑chain components, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Web3 applications.
- **SkyNet**: Real‑time security scoring and monitoring for 17,000+ projects (1.8M monthly active users).
- **SkyInsights**: On‑chain AML/CTF compliance, risk analytics, and transaction monitoring (300M+ address labels, 4,000+ incidents detected since 2020).
- **Proof of Reserves**: Attestation services for exchanges and custodians.
- **Bug Bounty Platform**: Fully managed platform with 0% fees on payouts, connecting projects with a global ethical hacker community.
- **DLT Advisory**: Strategy, architecture design, and security assessments for institutions building or integrating distributed ledger technology.
- **Validator & Node Operations**: Managed infrastructure for blockchain networks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Over $2 billion (source: LinkedIn, citing leading investors).
- **Key Metrics** (public data):  
  - Annual Revenue: $3.9M (LinkedIn estimate)  
  - Total Funding: $303.7M across 10 rounds (latest Series B in April 2022 led by Tiger Global Management and SoftBank Vision Fund)  
  - $483B market cap assessed, 115,000+ vulnerabilities detected, 90,000+ security audit findings  
  - 5,000+ enterprise clients, 500+ applications secured, 100M+ users protected  
  - Team of 125 employees ( +10.9% YoY growth) across 28 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Goldmann Sachs, Shunei Capital, Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Hillhouse Investment
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded into AML/CFT compliance (SkyInsights), SOC 2 Type II compliance, and regulatory partnerships in US, Singapire, Hong Kong, Japan, Abu Dhabi, Korea.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Academic Foundaton**: Founded by leading formal‑verification researchers from Yale and Columbia; CertiKOS is a hacker‑resistnt concurrent OS with published peer‑reviewed results.
- **Full‑Lifecycle Security**: One vendor for audits, monitoring, compliance, bug bounties, and node operations – reduces integration complexity for Web3 projects.
- **Scale & Trust**: Largest Web3 security auditor with >5,000 clients, industry recognition (clients inclue Aptos, Ripple, Polygon, BNB Chain).
- **Regultory Alignment**: Proactive invoement in global crypto policy (MiCA, DORA, HKSCF, MAS) gives clients a compliance edge.
- **Dual‑Layer Defense**: Combines AI‑drive analysis with manual expert review and optional formal‑verification – a rarer deep‑tech approach.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Compliance Sute**: Adding real‑time AML monitoring, risk intelligence, and regulatory advisory to capture institutional and enterprise demand.
- **Deeping AI/Formal Methods**: Leveraging AI to automate more of audit pipeline while maintaining formal verification rigor.
- **Geographic Scope**: Growing regulatory relationships in Asia, Middle East, and Europe to serve global VASPs.
- **Product Diversifiction**: Moving from single‑poit audit services to a full “security + infrastructure” platform (nodes, validators, bug bounties).

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful Mission**: Work on security that protects hundreds of billions in digital assets – directly shaping trust in decentralized finance.
- **Cutting‑Edge Technology**: Daily exposure to formal verification, AI security, blockchain internals, and both Web2/Web3 infrastructure.
- **Global & Remote‑Friendly**: Employees across 28 countries; office in New York but distributed workforce (remote‑first culture likely based on hiring patterns).
- **Career Growth**: Roles from Engineer III to Principal; senior positions in Blockchain Security Engineering (Solity, Rust, Golang) and Formal Methods.
- **Acadamic‑Industry Bridge**: Collaborate with founders who are active professors – access to latest research and top conferences.
- **Perks & Culture**: Not explicitly listed, but professional bug bount platform with 0% fees and team of respected security researchers suggests merit‑based, technically rigorous environment.

## Sources
1. [certik.com/company/about](https://www.certik.com/company/about) – Founders, background
2. [certik.com](https://www.certik.com/) – Products, metrics, client list
3. [certik.com/faq](https://www.certik.com/faq) – Service descriptions
4. [linkedin.com/company/certik](https://www.linkedin.com/company/certik) – Revenue, funding, employee count, valuation
5. [jobs.lever.co/certik](https://jobs.lever.co/certik) – Current job openings

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