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Chase · 1 day ago

Principal Cybersecurity Architect - Blockchain

Chase is a global leader in financial services, and they are seeking a Blockchain security specialist to lead their Digital Asset Security Group. This role involves proactively identifying threats, conducting security assessments, and collaborating with various teams to enhance cybersecurity measures within blockchain environments.

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Responsibilities

Proactively hunt for threats across blockchain networks, smart contract ecosystems, and infrastructure components in collaboration with our intelligence team
Perform ongoing threat intelligence, attack surface mapping, and exploit simulation on Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana etc
Design and execute proof-of-concepts and demonstrations for both discovered vulnerabilities and proposed mitigations
Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in smart contracts, wallets, bridges, and node infrastructure
Conduct security assessments and code reviews across Solidity, Rust and off-chain components
Partner with engineering and DevOps to secure CI/CD pipelines, API gateways and validator nodes
Collaborate with cryptographers to help evaluate readiness for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transitions
Advise on secure deployment patterns, product launches, and security-by-design principles

Qualification

Blockchain securitySmart contract auditingVulnerability researchEthereum ecosystemThreat huntingSecurity toolingCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

5 to 10 years of experience in cybersecurity or blockchain security
Strong understanding of Ethereum, Solana and Bitcoin ecosystems (execution, consensus, infrastructure)
Proven experience in smart contract auditing (Solidity, Rust, Anchor framework)
Hands-on expertise in vulnerability research, exploits development, or PoC prototyping
Familiarity with threat hunting, attack simulation, and adversary emulation in blockchain environments

Preferred

Familiarity with MEV threats, bridge exploits, flash loan attacks and cross-chain vulnerabilities
Experience with security tooling (Mythril, Slither, Echidna, Foundry, Halmos etc.)
Knowledge of zk-SNARKS / zk-STARKs, MPC and threshold cryptography

Company

Chase provides broad range of financial services. It is a sub-organization of JP Morgan Chase.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Mike McDonnell
Managing Director, Head of Chase Travel Platform Product
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Nicole Sanchez
Managing Director, Consumer Bank, GM and Product Executive, Growth Financial Products
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