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Senior Blockchain Security Engineer
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has $19.2B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $1.4B Bio funds, the $3.1B Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.
We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process. We’ve invested in companies like We’ve invested in companies like Celo, Coinbase, Compound, Dfinity, Diem, Maker, and OpenSea. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping entrepreneurs and their companies impact and change the world.
The Role
As a Blockchain Security Engineer at a16z Crypto, you will focus on protocol security across our entire portfolio. It is a unique opportunity to pioneer the field and elevate the security bar for the whole space.
You will work hand-in-hand with talented founders and protocol teams on the bleeding-edge of crypto to find and address security vulnerabilities across many systems. You’ll also communicate internally with the team to help improve our investment decisions and secure our asset management operations.
We highly encourage you to kick-off community efforts to mitigate bug classes you identify, write company blog posts about your findings and present your accomplishments to the crypto community during conferences.
This role will report to the CISO of a16z Crypto.
To join our team, you should be excited to:
- Analyze and audit the security of blockchain protocols, decentralized applications and smart contracts
- Analyze the security of our critical asset management infrastructure
- Ensure the adoption of the best security practices in our portfolio companies for blockchain development across design, implementation, testing, release
- Report and communicate vulnerabilities in audited systems to various audiences (investment team, engineering team, portfolio companies)
- Act as a point of contact for third party security auditing partners and assist our portfolio companies in their security audits
- Be a thought-leader in the space for the creation of tooling to mitigate entire bug classes and security standards
Minimum Qualifications
- 6 years of security analysis or cybersecurity experience
- Strong debugging, problem solving and reverse engineering skills
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Deep understanding of vulnerabilities in the following categories: applied cryptography, concurrency, logic, access control, key management
- Experience in Solidity security analysis
- Understanding of Ethereum and the EVM
- Experience in Javascript, Typescript, Python
What is EVM?
EVM stands for Ethereum Virtual Machine, and it is the runtime environment for smart contracts in the Ethereum network
It is a virtual machine that executes code written in the Solidity programming language, which is the language used for writing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform
The EVM is a sandboxed environment, which means that code executed within the EVM is isolated from the rest of the network and cannot interact with it directly
This is important for security reasons, as it prevents malicious code from affecting the rest of the network
When a smart contract is deployed to the Ethereum network, it is compiled into bytecode that can be executed by the EVM
Each node on the network maintains a copy of the EVM, which allows them to execute smart contract code and validate transactions
When a transaction is submitted to the network, the EVM processes it by executing the corresponding smart contract code
The EVM processes the transaction by reading the bytecode, interpreting it, and executing it step by step
The EVM then returns the result of the transaction to the sender, which can include changes to the state of the contract or the network as a whole
The EVM is designed to be Turing-complete, which means that it is capable of performing any computation that can be performed by a computer
This allows for complex smart contracts to be executed on the Ethereum network, including those with conditional logic, loops, and other advanced programming constructs
The EVM is a key component of the Ethereum network, as it allows for the execution of smart contracts in a secure and isolated environment
It is a crucial part of the blockchain infrastructure that enables decentralized applications to be built and run on the Ethereum platform.