About Us
Parity is one of the world's most experienced core blockchain infrastructure companies, having built and pioneered some of the most advanced technologies in the blockchain sector. Parity was founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellow Paper.
Parity has built clients for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Zcash and has pioneered a completely new, next-generation blockchain protocol with Polkadot and the framework it’s built with, Substrate. Parity builds the open-source technologies needed to power an unstoppable, decentralised web—known as Web3—and helps developers and organisations implement and build upon the Web3 tech stack.
People in Our Collective Are
Excited to work on projects that are groundbreaking and complex
Autonomous workers that self-initiate, but also collaborate well with others
Taking maximum accountability and having minimum ego at work
Comfortable with chaos and adapting to the ever-changing Web3 space
Continuously educating themselves about Parity and the wider ecosystem
About the team
The AppSec team is pivotal in helping us secure our ecosystem. We are part of the Security team with a mission of reducing the impact of threats to Parity and its products, bolstering their resilience against potential cyber threats.
Parity has many products: blockchain clients written in Rust, mobile apps written in platform-native languages, browser-based tools and extensions written in JavaScript. We also maintain some crypto and networking libraries (mostly in Rust) and a blockchain framework used by several hundreds of third-party teams. All of this code needs to be consistently secured
About the position
This is a crucial role where you will bring your technical abilities to recognise and reduce risk to the ecosystem and be able to effectively influence a wide group of stakeholders.
It is a unique opportunity to help secure an innovative organisation where feedback is direct and honest and understands that a check box approach doesn’t get results.
About you
Strong knowledge of secure coding practices
Risk based approach and pragmatism in order to enhance level of security in partnership with different stakeholders
Familiarity with security frameworks and approaches such as SAST, DAST, fuzzing, property-based testing, symbolic execution, network simulation
Have experience in threat modelling, red/blue teaming, working with best-in-class independent security teams and turning their findings into actual deployed fixes in our codebase (as well as implementing lessons learned)
An ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders to valorise security and influence best practices
Advanced skills in analyzing and mitigating cyber security threats
Understanding of web3 application architecture - ideally including cryptography, decentralized networking, blockchain consensus, hardware key management solutions
Proficiency with security tools and technologies, also the ability to create own tools when it is needed
Proficiency in multiple programming languages - ideally RUST and Typescript
A focus on outcomes (rather than activities) and delivering against outcomes with limited interference day-to-day
Ideally live within 2 hours of UTC+0, but exceptional candidates outside of this timezone will also be considered.
About working for us
Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
“Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects
Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job
Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
Team and company-wide retreats
Work laptop
Those joining our collective as an employee in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and the U.K. also enjoy benefits such as health care, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year), local team events, yearly L&D budget, and language classes.
Parity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.
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