Startups

AppSec Engineer

Digital Asset · New York City · On-site

← All jobs
About Digital Asset

Use Digital Asset (DA) to put Canton to work. As the creators of Canton Network, DA is trusted by market leaders to help bring their onchain ambitions to life.

About the role

Digital Asset enables mission critical workflows in the financial industry through development using Daml and runs on the Canton ledger and the Canton Network. The security team supports this mission by providing infrastructure and application security guidance and tooling for DA products and services.

What they're looking for

  • Cloud Security: Working knowledge of securing Google Cloud (and AWS, Azure). This includes identity and access management (IAM), GKE, and Cloud Armor, logging, and data protection in the cloud
  • Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in scripting language (e.g., Python, GoLang, or Bash) to automate security tasks, analyze logs, and develop custom tools
  • AppSec Security: Integrating security checks (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, SCA) into CI/CD pipelines, and hardening build infrastructure and workflows
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally experience writing technical documentation and specifications
  • Some experience with cryptographic keys, KMS, HSMs
  • 3-7 years of experience in IT and application security
More about this role

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.

Digital Asset enables mission critical workflows in the financial industry through development using Daml and runs on the Canton...

Read the full posting on Digital Asset's site ↗

Security / IT

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.