Engineering Lead — Security

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# Remote Engineering Lead — Security Job at SomniaUSA7 hours agoFull TimeUSA $25000 - $40000 USDType Script Kubernetes Rust Go Linux REST Blockchain Chai Compliance Containers MEANO

racle“When applying, mention the word Far Coder to show you’ve read the job post completely. Employers can look for these words to identify genuine, thoughtful applicants and avoid spam.”## Job Overview Somnia is hiring a remote candidate for Engineering Lead — Security. This is a full time position.

Work location:

USA.The role typically involves technologies such as Type Script, Kubernetes, Rust, Go, Linux, REST.## Required Skills### Primary Skills
* Type Script* Kubernetes
* Rust* Go
* Linux* REST### Secondary Skills
* Blockchain* Chai
* Compliance* Containers
* MEAN* Oracle Skills required for this role include Type Script, Kubernetes, Rust, and related tools for day-to-day development.## Job Details
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* Employment Type:

** Full Time
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* Location:

** USA
* ** Salary:** $25000 – $40000 USD## Tech Stack Type Script , Kubernetes, Rust, Go, Linux, REST, Blockchain, Chai, Compliance, Containers, MEAN, Oracle## Role details

About SomniaSOMNIA is the Agentic Chain - a hyper-performance L1 operating at an order of magnitude faster than existing networks. We empower builders and traders to create real-time, autonomous, and fully decentralized products, powered by agents, that were previously impossible and cannot be built anywhere else. It’s where the future of Web3 protocols will be built, so we’re facilitating a new wave of on-chain applications from DEX to Prediction Protocols and much, much more.

Somnia is being developed by Somnia Foundation backed by Improbable https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). a British tech Unicorn +++ that has been at the forefront of building virtual worlds for over a decade. Somnia received initial funding from MSquared https:// which raised $150 million  from a16z crypto, Soft Bank, Mirana Ventures, CMT Digital, and SIG.### About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Lead to own security across Somnia—the infrastructure and operations running the L1, the products and services teams ship on top of it, the policies and processes that govern how we work, and the multisig and key management protecting the protocol's most critical assets.
** A senior, hands-on role:
** you help set the security strategy and posture and do the work—hardening infrastructure, defining incident response, securing signing and treasury operations, and raising the bar across the team. You treat security as an enabler of velocity, not a blocker, and use AI as a multiplier.###

Key Responsibilities
* Work with the other technical leaders to help define the engineering culture and bar.
* Own the security posture of the L1 infrastructure—validators, RPC, signing services, supporting systems. Harden hosts, networks, and pipelines; drive vulnerability management, patching, and security monitoring.
* Define and roll out the policies and standards that govern the organization—access control, secrets management, secure SDLC, change management, compliance-readiness. Practical enough that engineers actually follow them.
* Drive application and supply-chain security for what Somnia ships—secure-by-default patterns, dependency and build-pipeline scanning in CI, and security reviews where the stakes are highest. That includes the agentic workflow itself: the permissions and provenance of agent-authored changes. Product teams own their security day-to-day; you set the bar and pave the road.
* Design and operate multisig governance, signing ceremonies, and the key lifecycle (generation, storage, rotation, recovery) for treasury, upgrades, and privileged ops. No single points of failure; everything auditable.
* Build and lead the security incident-response capability—detection, triage, containment, blameless postmortems—and run tabletops, from a compromised laptop to a live protocol exploit, so the team is ready before an incident, not during one.
* Stay hands-on—threat modeling, security reviews, and red-team exercises—and coordinate external audits and bug bounties to raise the bar company-wide.
* Work with the infrastructure and L1 teams so…