Director, Ecosystem Product Security

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