Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Insight Global is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, Digital Asset Custody. The role serves as the technical authority for crypto custody engineering, owning key management, custody security architecture, risk posture, policy enforcement, disaster recovery, and incident response across digital asset platforms. This hands-on individual contributor will set technical direction and influence engineering, security, operations, and leadership teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve institutional-grade key management architectures, including:
- Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
- Multi-Party Computation (MPC)
- Secure key generation, storage, rotation, signing, and recovery
- Define architecture patterns and trade-offs across hot wallet, warm wallet, and cold storage models
- Ensure cryptographic solutions align with regulatory, security, and audit requirements
- Partner closely with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to incorporate defense-in-depth and zero-trust principles into custody designs
- Lead the design and development of the Custody Policy Engine, including:
- Authorization, approvals, limits, and segregation of duties
- Transaction controls and exception handling
- Policy versioning, auditability, and enforcement
- Ensure policies are code-driven, deterministic, observable, and testable
- Translate business, legal, and risk requirements into enforceable technical controls
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor on custody governance and policy topics
- Own custody-specific disaster recovery strategies, including key recovery, quorum loss scenarios, and blockchain-related events
- Create and maintain incident response playbooks and recovery runbooks
- Partner with Operations, Security, and SRE teams to validate and test recovery procedures
- Lead post-incident reviews, root cause analyses, and long-term remediation efforts
- Serve as the primary custody architecture authority across wallets, blockchains, environments, and platforms
- Identify architectural and operational risks and propose mitigation strategies with clear trade-off analysis
- Ensure custody solutions scale across multiple assets, chains, and future tokenized products
- Influence enterprise security standards by elevating security, resilience, and engineering rigor
- Leverage GenAI and agentic AI tools to accelerate:
- Architecture design
- Threat modeling
- Documentation
- Testing and reviews
- Set expectations for AI-assisted engineering that prioritizes correctness, security, and quality
- Partner with engineering teams to improve architecture, code quality, and documentation across custody platforms
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on security-sensitive or cryptographic systems
- Hands-on experience with HSMs, MPC frameworks, and secure key management systems
- Experience with Web3 security tools such as Slither, Mythril, and Foundry Fuzzing
- Experience with cryptography-focused development languages including C, C++, Rust, or Go
- Experience working with third-party security auditors such as Trail of Bits, Halborn, or similar firms
- Proven ability to design systems where failure carries significant business or security risk
- Strong background in distributed systems, secure architectures, and fault-tolerant design
- Demonstrated success serving as a technical authority without direct people management responsibilities
- Experience with crypto custody platforms, digital asset infrastructure, or blockchain ecosystems
- Ownership of incident response programs, disaster recovery design, or security runbooks
- Ability to clearly communicate risk-based trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong systems-thinking mindset that connects technology, security, governance, and operations
- Comfortable challenging assumptions and proactively identifying risks in high-stakes environments
- Experience using AI tools to improve complex engineering workflows
Benefits
- Fully remote - USA
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