Director, Ecosystem Product Security

This strategic and hands-on leadership role will establish security standards, coordinate shared risks and incident response, drive secure development, and oversee product, infrastructure, treasury, and custody-related security for the Stellar Development Foundation.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead security strategy across the Stellar ecosystem and Foundation-owned systems
• Raise the security baseline for wallets, infrastructure providers, custodians, issuers, and validators
• Publish actionable security guidance, reference patterns, and expectations
• Build coordination mechanisms for shared risks, incident response, and ecosystem security improvements
• Own security outcomes for Foundation-developed software, operated infrastructure, and treasury and custody responsibilities
• Partner with Engineering, Finance, Legal, IT, and Corporate Security to implement security controls and practices
• Lead secure development across architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty programs, and product incident response
• Build and lead a high-performing security team
• Represent the Foundation externally on ecosystem security

Requirements

• 10+ years of security experience, including significant senior leadership experience
• 5+ years leading security programs, teams, or functions
• Experience owning security outcomes for complex, high-consequence production systems
• Deep product and application security experience
• Familiarity with blockchain and decentralized system security
• Ability to assess and prioritize risks involving protocol design, smart contracts, wallets, validators, dependencies, and governance mechanisms
• Experience driving security improvements across multiple teams, organizations, or ecosystem participants
• Experience handling high-severity incidents and disclosure processes
• Experience building, leading, and developing security teams
• Ability to set strategy, translate it into execution, and deliver measurable outcomes
• Experience operating where security failures could cause financial loss, operational disruption, or loss of trust

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible time off
• 15 company holidays and a company-wide holiday break
• Paid parental leave
• Paid pregnancy disability leave
• Gym reimbursement
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• 401K with 4% match
• Health and Dependent Care FSA accounts
• Commuter benefits with employer contribution
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution
• Family building benefits through Kindbody
• Wellbeing benefits through One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace
• Daily lunch and snacks in the office
• Company retreats