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Posted Apr 6Director, Ecosystem Product Security
at Stellar3
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
$50,000
Requirements
- Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today.
- It requires deep technical judgment across decentralized systems, product security, and operational risk, along with the ability to work across teams and influence independent ecosystem participants without direct authority.
- experience in security, including significant
- experience in senior leadership roles - 5+ years leading security programs, teams, or functions with meaningful scope - A track record of owning security outcomes for complex, high-consequence systems in production - Deep
- experience in product and application security, with hands-on judgment in real-world environments - Strong familiarity with blockchain and decentralized system security - The ability to assess and prioritize risk across areas such as protocol design, smart contracts, wallets, validators, dependencies, and governance mechanisms -
- Experience driving security improvements across multiple teams, organizations, or ecosystem participants, including in environments where you do not have direct authority - Strong incident judgment, including
- experience handling high-severity incidents and disclosure processes - A pragmatic approach to security, with the ability to make tradeoffs that reduce real-world risk rather than optimize for theoretical completeness -
- Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing security teams - The ability to set strategy, translate it into execution, and deliver measurable outcomes - Clear communication skills and the credibility to work effectively with engineers, executives, and external ecosystem participants -
- Experience operating in environments where security failures could lead to financial loss, operational disruption, or loss of trust
- Experience with secure development frameworks such as NIST SSDF - Familiarity with Web3 security frameworks such as OWASP SCSVS or SEAL -
- Experience in financial infrastructure, payments, custody, or tokenized finance -
- Experience with large-scale platform or ecosystem security architecture -
Benefits
- Bonus Points if (optional): -
- Experience in identity, trust, encryption, or internet-scale systems We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $225,000 - $335,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
- In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and
- benefits: USA Benefits/Perks: - Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents - Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break - Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents - Gym reimbursement ($80 per month) - Life & ADD (up to $50K) - Short & Long term disability - 401K with 4% match - Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts - Commuter
- benefits with $250/month employer contribution - Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution - Family building
Additional details
- Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
- We're hiring a Director, Ecosystem & Product Security to lead security strategy across the Stellar ecosystem and directly own security outcomes for Foundation-developed systems, Foundation-operated infrastructure, and treasury-related security responsibilities.
- This role is focused on raising the practical security baseline across a decentralized financial ecosystem that includes wallets, infrastructure providers, custodians, issuers, validators, and other critical participants.
- Success means reducing real-world security risk and financial loss through clear standards, effective coordination, and practical improvements that are adopted in production.
- This is a highly cross-functional and externally visible leadership role.
- The right candidate will combine technical credibility, sound judgment, and strong execution to help make security a durable strength of both the Foundation and the broader Stellar network. In this role,
- you will: - Define and lead the Foundation’s security strategy across both the Stellar ecosystem and Foundation-owned systems - Raise the practical security baseline for key ecosystem participants, including wallets, infrastructure providers, custodians, issuers, and validators - Publish actionable guidance, reference patterns, and security expectations that drive real adoption across the ecosystem - Build coordination mechanisms for shared risks, incident response, and cross-ecosystem security improvement
- responsibilities - Partner with Engineering, Finance, Legal, IT, and Corporate Security to drive implementation of security controls and secure operating practices - Lead secure development efforts across architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty programs, and product incident response - Build and lead a high-performing security team, while translating strategy into execution plans and measurable outcomes - Represent the Foundation externally as a credible technical leader and