About the company
Unit 410 is an experienced team of security, infrastructure, and cryptocurrency engineers. We empower the largest stakeholders to use their crypto in secure and novel ways. To do so, we build institutional-grade systems and solutions for secure network participation. Before Unit 410, we’ve worked at companies like Coinbase, Google, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We’ve long believed in the potential of cryptocurrency and are excited to continue pushing forward the state of the art through industry-leading key generation, encryption, and network participation. Done right, bleeding-edge participation offers scaling, efficiency, and governance improvements over existing layer 1 protocols. But this comes with novel security challenges. Protecting online key material and managing the risk of slashing requires new architectural patterns, hardening, and methods for secure cryptographic signatures. We’re excited to continue to mature solutions across these areas and more. We also believe that network participation is not a zero-sum game and there’s no shortage of work towards scaling crypto, so we’ll continue to liberally open sourcing the tools we’ve built. To date we’ve shared many tools such as a Polkadot Transaction Parser, Polkadot Multisig WebApp, GCP SSH Certificate Authority, MPC for Tendermint Validators, Vault Shamir (in Go), Horcrux (CLI for Shamir), and many more.
Job Summary
Job Responsibilities
đź“ŤManage & Execute Operations: Unit 410 supports many operational requests from our clients that interact with offline hardware. This role manages the execution of those requests using internal tools & hardware. đź“ŤAutomation & Security: This role is also constantly looking for ways to automate and further secure our processes by identifying new software or process changes to speed up our business. đź“ŤFacility IT, Security & Operations: This role is on-site 2-5 days / week in Austin Texas. There may be occasional traveling to other US based facilities. These facilities contain IT, Security & Monitoring controls that you will help administer while performing other work within. đź“ŤDiligence & Details: Working with security sensitive systems requires a high level of rigor that you are able to help implement and automate.
Nice To Have
đź“ŤFamiliarity with cryptocurrency and private key management. đź“ŤWillingness to travel domestically to other facilities. đź“ŤAbility to contribute engineering changes to upstream systems and automate integrations.
