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Staff Platform Security Engineer (Security)

Phantom · Remote · Remote

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About Phantom

The self-custodial wallet for trading predictions, perps, and tokens across Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Robinhood, HyperEVM, and more. Backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

AWS Security: Own and improve security across Phantom’s multi-account AWS environment, including IAM, Identity Center, networking, compute, storage, secrets, logging, and organization-level guardrails. Kubernetes Security: Secure production Kubernetes environments running on Amazon EKS, including cluster configuration, workload identity, RBAC, admission controls, network boundaries, secrets, container security, and tenant isolation.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in platform security, cloud security, infrastructure security, security engineering, or a closely related engineering role
  • Deep, hands-on experience securing production AWS environments. You understand IAM and resource policies, workload identity, network security, secrets management, logging, organization-level controls, and the ways these systems fail in practice
  • Deep experience securing Kubernetes in production, preferably Amazon EKS, including RBAC, workload identity, admission policy, network policy, pod security, secrets, and cluster hardening
  • Experience designing or securing mission-critical systems where compromise, excessive privilege, or loss of availability could have significant customer or business impact
  • Strong understanding of identity, authorization, least privilege, isolation, and blast-radius reduction across both human and machine access
  • Experience securing CI/CD and software supply chains, including GitHub Actions or similar systems, build runners, workload federation, artifacts, and production deployment paths
More about this role

Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Tens of millions of people all over the world use Phantom to access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins and memes. Phantom users are able to discover the markets that matter and the cultural moments that shape them, building conviction through real-time data and the verified performance of top traders. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets them control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide.

Phantom has reached #1 in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories. Phantom partners with many of the most trusted and influential names in finance like Hyperliquid, Stripe, Kalshi and Visa, to make the most popular and innovative financial products accessible to everyone.

We are around 180 people, fully remote, backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.

Platform security is foundational to protecting Phantom and the systems our users rely on. We’re hiring a Senior Platform...

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