Senior Security Researcher

About Digital Asset

Digital Asset is at the forefront of blockchain innovation, delivering solutions that unlock the value of on-chain tokenized assets and digital financial markets to create a more efficient, fair, and resilient global financial system.

As the creators of Canton Network, and one of the founding members of Canton's Global Synchronizer Foundation, we are pioneers in open, secure, and interoperable infrastructure that transforms the way capital markets operate – focused on the growth of the only layer one blockchain with privacy and decentralized governance. The Canton Network processes over $3.6T of tokenized real-world assets today, providing the scalable rails for diverse digital assets from tokenized money market funds and privacy-enabled stablecoins, to 24x7 collateral and next-generation custody and asset servicing.

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 we're just getting started.

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.