Network Security Engineer

Monad Labs is the team building Monad, the performant and parallel EVM Layer-1 blockchain. We are a team of systems engineers and community builders who are on a mission to help crypto eat the world. After recently raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

The Role

We are looking for a Network Security Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring the security of our systems and infrastructure. You will have advanced skills in intrusion detection and threat hunting to identify credible risks and adversaries to proprietary and sensitive data before a potential breach.

Although we are building a new blockchain, previous experience with crypto is not required.

What You Will Do

• Conduct security assessments of our systems and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and risks, identify risk owners, and implement mitigating controls
• Monitor and analyze network, server, endpoint, database, and application activities for indicators of compromise while minimizing false positives
• Implement and maintain security controls, including access controls, network segmentation, and security monitoring tools
• Develop, drive, and implement a threat hunting program to proactively identify and mitigate security threats
• Lead incident response efforts, conducting through remediation and root cause analysis
• Contribute to security process enhancement and documentation, while staying up to date on the latest security threats 

Who You Are

• Experience configuring routers, switches, firewalls to optimize network efficiency and security
• Familiar with Ethernet, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, Spanning Tree, ARP
• Experience with tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, nstat, IXIA or Iperf for testing, monitoring and analyzing network traffic
• Proficiency working in cybersecurity operations and incident response
• Knowledge of log ingestion pipelines, log parsing, grok patterns, and regular expressions
• Ability to write and automate security incident playbooks
• Security experience with bare metal and cloud native environments
• Security experience with desktop environments
• Deep knowledge of attacker methodologies and techniques
• Programming/scripting experience (e.g. bash, python)
• Previous experience with blockchain clients preferred
• Bachelor of Science degree in Information Security, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field preferred

Why Work with Us

• Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.
• Huge opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are very slow. Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto.
• The right team. You’ll be part of a small, exceptional team (bios here).
• Culture. We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs. As an early member of our team, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.
• Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.
• Resources and growth. We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.

Salary and Benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $200,000.  (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, domain expertise, and geographic location.)

Monad Labs’ benefits for US-based full-time employees include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% coverage for employees); unlimited and encouraged paid time off; monthly mental health and fitness stipend; paid parental leave; and 10 company-observed holidays.

Our team is headquartered in NoMad, Manhattan, NYC. This is for a hybrid (3 days/week in office) role.