Protocol Security Engineer

Summary

Join the Ethereum Foundation as a Protocol Security Engineer and contribute to securing the Ethereum protocol. This fully remote, flexible position offers competitive compensation. You will leverage your expertise in areas like manual application auditing (Go, Rust, Java, C#, or Nim), fuzzer development, and security research. Collaboration with various teams and researchers within the Ethereum ecosystem is a key aspect of the role. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of cybersecurity experience and thrives in a fast-paced, open-source environment.

Requirements

• Be highly motivated and collaborative
• Be comfortable working in the open (as the project is open-source)
• Be very self-motivated and comfortable working asynchronously
• Have 4+ years of cybersecurity experience
• Be experienced in manually auditing applications written in Go, Rust, Java, C#, or Nim
• Have a track record of writing fuzzers

Responsibilities

• Use your technical expertise to further secure the Ethereum protocol
• Manually audit the Ethereum software stack, including new updates to the Execution Layer and Consensus Layer clients
• Write fuzzers for the Ethereum protocol’s p2p networking layer or clients
• Conduct security research
• Work closely with client teams, researchers, ethpandaops, testing teams, and others to minimize the risk of security incidents on a protocol level

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with specific areas of expertise related to securing the Ethereum protocol (implied, not explicitly stated as preferred)

Benefits

• Full-time position
• Fully remote
• Flexible work hours
• Competitive compensation