Senior Security Engineer

Magic's aims to bring "a wallet to every internet user," focusing on simplifying the onboarding of mainstream users into the Web3 ecosystem and enabling Web3-powered use cases for customers.

Since our founding in 2018, we’ve onboarded over 25 million users and 170,000 developers into the Web3 ecosystem and enabled Web3 use cases for prominent brands such as Mattel and Forbes, while powering some of the top Web3 customers such as Polymarket, Helium, Immutable, and WalletConnect. We’ve also raised over $80 million from notable investors, including PayPal Ventures, Lightspeed, Placeholder, SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, and Balaji Srinivasan.

Our team is deeply passionate about Magic's mission. Joining Magic means partnering with the best minds in Web3 to shape our industry. We foster an environment that promotes peak performance by offering robust support through a collaborative culture, opportunities to make a meaningful impact, and a suite of top-tier benefits.

If you are excited to shape the future of Web3, let's chat!

The Role

Magic's security team is critical – it is responsible for safeguarding Magic’s tools and products. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to play a pivotal role in expanding our security program. The Senior Security Engineer will also work on some of the most challenging and high-visibility risks the company is facing. You will identify and mitigate security risks in our product and infrastructure, in addition to conducting security assessments, and assist with investigations. The ideal candidate will be an innovative self-starter, who is motivated by our mission and results-driven, and will be able to extract, assimilate, and correlate a wide variety of data in order to surface and disrupt threat actors across multiple spaces. 

This is a fully remote position for US and Canada-based candidates. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship (ex., H-1B transfer) of employment visas at this time, and applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada.

You will:

• Contribute to further securing our SDLC, including secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, and regression tests. 
• Lead and grow our vulnerability management program, which spans across our cloud infrastructure (AWS) and endpoint machines (macOS).
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to harden our frontend and backend systems (Next.js, Typescript, AWS, Python)
• Foster your extensive experience securing a cloud microservices platform like Kubernetes, including ingress/egress, and container communication. 
• Manage our external bug bounty program and be able to technically contribute to mitigations.
• Support compliance standards like NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and GDPR.
• Build a security mindset across the organization by providing security guidance and best practices.
• Take a holistic approach towards security, ensuring coverage from code quality up and out to our edge services including Cloudflare and Vercel.  
• Participate in 24/7 on-call and security incidents, acting as Incident Manager.

You have:

• 6+ years of security engineering or software security experience in either frontend or backend environments. 
• Experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python, Golang, or TypeScript.
• Excellent Incident Management skills to navigate and lead incidents adeptly to ensure platform uptime.

Bonus points:

• Have previously built or managed a SIEM like OpenSearch or Splunk.
• Built out modular authentication flows including WebAuthn OAuth.
• Experience with Web3 protocol or smart contract security auditing.  

Why you'll love working with us:

• Remote-first culture with flexible working hours
• Competitive salary with stock options
• 99% company-paid medical*, dental and vision insurance; 100% company-paid life and disability insurance
• 401(k) plan* (US) or pension plan (CAN)
• $3,600 annual reimbursement for remote work, wellness and professional development
• Flexible time off
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Family planning and reproductive health benefits, including up to $5,000 reimbursement, through Maven*

*Benefits available to US employees only. Canada healthcare coverage differs.

Salary 

• $170,000-$210,000/year