Senior Security Researcher

Job Description

About Digital Asset & the Canton Network
Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world's most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance.

At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network - the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney— we are on a mission to transform finance— and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.

If you're interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

Opportunity 

Mission critical workflows in the financial industry are developed using Daml and run on the 

Canton ledger

and the 

Canton Network

. The Canton security team's mission is to ensure the security of the 

Canton ledger

by conducting security reviews, mitigating known threats, and delivering security-critical features. In addition the team raises awareness of security in general, educates software developers on security topics, and coordinates security work across different teams.

As a security researcher in the Canton team you have the unique opportunity to work on the security of a novel distributed ledger system that runs mission critical workflows with demanding security requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform security reviews of the Canton architecture, implementation, and protocol design.
• Perform pentests against Canton APIs and deployments.
• Mitigate known threats as well as guide engineers in finding and resolving security issues.
• Conduct security and threat modeling by documenting security requirements, trust models, threat analyses, and mitigations.
• Define and implement security testing such as fuzzing, security regression tests, and/or model-based testing.
• Collaborate on security topics with other teams working on Daml and the Canton Network.
• Plan and shepherd external security audits.
• Raise awareness and educate engineers on security topics.

Key Criteria 

• Experienced security researcher or information security engineer as demonstrated by analysing complex production systems or open-source software.
• Ideally experience with distributed systems, blockchains, security protocols, and/or cryptography.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally experienced writing technical documentation and educating other engineers.
• Software engineering experience with developing and deploying production systems.
• Collaborative approach to work on security topics across teams and with different stakeholders.
• Master's degree or PhD in computer science or a related discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Based in Switzerland (preferred), the UK, or Hungary

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This is a rare opportunity to help define an industry and join a dynamic team of technology innovators.

Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire. Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact

As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.