About the company
Base is looking to hire an Associate Creative Director to join their team. This is a full-time position that can be done remotely anywhere in the United States. Base - A new Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack.
Job Summary
What youâll be doing (ie. job duties):
📍Develop onchain security strategies and perform security assessments and threat modeling of various blockchain protocols. 📍Lead from the front, be proactive and thorough, and identify top onchain security risks and develop strategies to deal with them. 📍Provide expert technical guidance to the team in building new frameworks, analysis tools, and security products. 📍Lead the way in establishing best practices and engage with product and eng teams to get them adopted. 📍Coach and mentor Protocol Security team members to build new skills and be crypto-forward. 📍Guide Protocol Security to the cutting-edge of security technologies for blockchain protocols and help set standards for the rest of the industry to follow.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
📍You have extensive knowledge of onchain ecosystems, including the inner workings of L1 and L2 networks, DeFi protocols, staking, etc. 📍You excel in identifying machine-level, transaction-level, and business logic-level vulnerabilities in smart contracts and protocol infrastructure. 📍You have 3+ years of smart contract auditing experience and have led the audit of several complex protocols. 📍You have an energy and self-drive for continuous learning as crypto is a constantly and rapidly changing space. 📍You are passionate about mentoring and growing blockchain security engineers, as well as willing to learn from your team. 📍You excel in clear, direct, and kind communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. 📍You have experience building relationships with security, product, and engineering teams. 📍You balance long term strategic thinking with short term tactical planning.