Senior Security Researcher

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Hiring Remotely in USA
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Senior level
Cybersecurity • Web3
Hexens is a cybersecurity company that strives to elevate the standards of security in Web 3.0, create a safer future.
The Role
Audit Solidity smart contracts and blockchain projects for vulnerabilities, architectural flaws, and security risks. Produce actionable reports, collaborate with developers and stakeholders on remediation, and mentor engineers on security best practices. The role requires expertise in Solidity, EVM, blockchain development, testing, Hardhat or Geth, fuzzing, and formal verification, with opportunities to work on DeFi protocols and high-value assets.
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Hexens.io is looking for a Senior Security Researcher to join their team. Hexens.io is a company that provides state-of-the-art cybersecurity services with an essential focus on blockchain. The company solves sophisticated issues for customers with codes containing multimillion assets.

Remote Availability: CIS, Europe, United Arab Emirates

Job responsibilities:

  • Review smart contracts and analyze security measures
  • Audit smart contracts following the highest security industry standards
  • Mentor and educate engineers internally on the security best practices
  • You are security-minded and aware of the pitfalls of EVM code and vulnerable flows
  • Review code (primarily solidity smart contracts) of blockchain projects
  • Work to identify vulnerabilities, design and architectural flaws, quality improvement, and ways to mitigate future risk
  • Deliver clear and concise reports and “action-items” for developers to quickly mitigate and fix any issues discovered
  • Interact with developers and key stakeholders when identifying and handling security issues
  • Other related responsibilities

Required qualifications:

  • At least 3 years of work experience in cybersecurity and 1 year in smart contract audits
  • Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Demonstrated expertise with Solidity, EVM and blockchain specifics
  • Experience assessing smart contract security risks
  • Experience with unit and integration testing
  • Experience with hardhat and geth or other development frameworks and local environments
  • Fuzzing and formal verification
  • Experience developing and building on DeFi protocols and smart contracts is a big plus
  • Proactive problem solver

Benefits:

  • Possibility to work alongside industry-leading specialists
  • Opportunity to work with the most exciting and prominent companies in the industry
  • Highly competitive salary
  • Workations

Skills Required

  • At least 3 years of cybersecurity work experience
  • At least 1 year of smart contract audit experience
  • Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
  • Demonstrated expertise with Solidity, EVM, and blockchain specifics
  • Experience assessing smart contract security risks
  • Experience with unit and integration testing
  • Experience with Hardhat, Geth, or other development frameworks and local environments
  • Experience with fuzzing and formal verification
  • Experience developing and building on DeFi protocols and smart contracts
  • Proactive problem-solving ability
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The Company
60 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Hexens is a cybersecurity company that strives to elevate the standards of security in Web 3.0, create a safer environment for users, and ensure mass Web 3.0 adoption. Hexens has multiple top-notch auditing teams specialized in different fields of information security, showing extreme performance in the most challenging and technically complex tasks, including but not limited to: Infrastructure Audits, Zero Knowledge Proofs / Novel Cryptography, DeFi and NFTs. Hexens not only uses widely known methodologies and flows, but focuses on discovering and introducing new ones on a day-to-day basis.

Why Work With Us

Since Hexens was founded in 2021, it has had an impressive track record and recognition: Mudit Gupta - CISO of Polygon Technology - the biggest EVM Ecosystem, joined the company advisory board after completing just a single cooperation iteration. Polygon Technology, Mantle, Eigen Layer, 1inch, Lido, Hats Finance, Quickswap, Layerswap and many more

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