Polyweave creates multi-chain APIs for highly contextualized, enriched blockchain data. They keep the roadmap open sourced to themselves accountable with their community and customers. Backed by Foundation Capital.
About the role
Lead security at Helius, setting direction and owning execution across infrastructure, cloud, and production systems Own incident response end to end: detection, response, runbooks, on-call readiness, and regular tabletop exercises Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in security, including experience securing high-availability, internet-facing infrastructure at scale
- Strong engineering skills: you read and write code and can dig into systems yourself
- Deep expertise in cloud security, bare metal and production environments
- Hands-on experience with detection and response, and you’ve led through a real security incident
- Experience building a security program or significantly scaling a security function
- Experience securing developer products, APIs, or platforms
More about this role
Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain.
Thousands of teams - from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter - rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.
Read our Helius Manifesto to see how we work and what we value.
About the Role
We’re hiring our first Head of Security. You’ll own security across Helius and lead it hands-on: doing the work yourself across our engineering platform while building toward a team. You’ll report to our COO and Head of Engineering, and our leadership team will depend on you to understand, manage, and make clear calls on risk.
Your priorities are to establish a strong security posture across our engineering platform and to own incident response. You’ll have real authority and a clear...
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