Senior Security Engineer (Remote)
Company: Lightning Labs
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Security Engineer for the
ongoing scaling of our growing engineering organization. This is a
hands-on role that consists of devising and implementing policies
and procedures around best practices in systems security. The ideal
candidate has experience in securing web, Bitcoin, and other
public-facing network services, penetration testing, and both
automated and manual source code security reviews. Due to the
domain in which we work, experience with Bitcoin and the Lightning
Network is extremely desirable as is knowledge of the cryptographic
aspects involved in this area. As we are an international
organization, experience and comfort working with highly
distributed teams is a must. In addition, the ideal candidate
should have a passion for our mission of bringing financial freedom
to the world, as well as for Bitcoin as a whole. Although a part of
the engineering organization, candidates in this position will work
across functional team boundaries to ensure all aspects of the
business are appropriately considered and covered by security best
practices. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
Designing and deploying active fuzzing, blackwhite box testing and
penetration testing infrastructure for open source and production
systems Performing security audits and review of both internal
production systems as well as open source software which interacts
with BitcoinLightning in a security critical manner Provide
mentorship and guidance to level up your teammates Creating global
security policy, standards, guidelines, and procedures to ensure
ongoing maintenance of security Overseeing security aspects of
software release processes and infrastructure Determining security
team requirements for future growth Developing and ensuring
responsiveness of security incident management processes Performing
risk management assessments Preferred experience: At least 5 years
prior experience in in systems security An ability to work with a
high impact, fast-moving startup team Extensive knowledge of
operating system and computer architecture internals Strong
understanding of cryptography, protocol design and adversarial
analysis Experience in reverse engineering and exploiting of
cryptographic protocol (cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) systems
Extensive expertise with professional software development
experience in Go, Rust, C/C++, and/or Java Experience in security
incident response Experience in security code review and
vulnerability triaging Prior experience running an open source
facing bug bounty program 2 years management experience or
experience as a senior decision maker Experience working with
remote teams Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS
infrastructure Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin and
Lightning design principles Candidates with additional experience
are welcome to apply as we are open to adjusting the role
accordingly
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