Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering, AppSec Focus

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 
The Security Team shapes and maintains a culture of trust, safety, and resiliency for our clients and regulators. The Security Team manages production security infrastructure and automation, secure coding, monitoring, incident response, access management, continuous control improvements, SOC attestation, and third-party relationships.
As a member of this team focusing on Application Security, you will use various tools and techniques to analyze, test, and remediate vulnerabilities in our products and IT infrastructure. This includes web applications, APIs, and managing vulnerabilities in dependencies and containers.
You will play a crucial role in the team, delivering on medium-to-large impact projects. As an expert in triaging and responding to various signals, you will prioritize roadmap projects as the scale of Anchorage Digital increases by incorporating the "why" and the "big picture."
You will work across teams, applying your expertise to significantly influence both within and outside the team. Success in this role involves delivering impactful work that enhances the team's stability and resilience, embracing and contributing to the Anchorage Digital culture, and prioritizing the safety and security of Anchorage Digital and its clients.
Stay up to date on emerging threat intelligence to ensure we have accurate, tested playbooks for rapid response.

Technical Skills:

• Identify issues and promote best practice in our secure, resilient, and globally scalable infrastructure.
• Review code across the entire stack and assist other engineering teams in solving these issues with technical guardrails.
• Promote an efficient testing culture, minimizing technical debt and bureaucracy.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Enhance our Vulnerability Management program by identifying and addressing issues. Collaborate with engineering teams responsible for various services and products to ensure effective remediation.
• Automate manual tasks into continuous testing facilities to ensure Anchorage Digital is ready to scale securely.
• Independently drive work and lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large Security Team initiatives. These projects often involve multiple team members and may cross engineering team boundaries. Lead projects from start to finish with minimal oversight, coordinating activities of other team members.
• Break down large projects into smaller tasks. Estimate the time and scope of these tasks accurately. Clearly present the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, and justify the recommended priorities.
• Work is reviewed upon completion and is consistent with departmental objectives. May be accountable for delivering tactical business targets that impact their team.
• Contribute high-quality code and infrastructure, making significant technical contributions to our platform. Monitor and address technical debt, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Understand the company's strategy to help ensure its successful implementation. Participate in planning and defining the Security Team's strategic goals in alignment with the overall goals of Anchorage Digital.
• Monitor for the development of company objectives and trends that might impact its success.
• Thoroughly consider security across the entire product ecosystem and foster a company culture that prioritizes it.
• Strike the right balance between rapid progress (shipping quickly) and precision (measuring twice).

Communication and Influence:

• Ensure knowledge is shared throughout the broader team and avoid positioning anyone as a single point of failure.
• Mentor and guide multiple engineers throughout the Engineering team. Help them understand how security impacts Anchorage Digital’s strategic goals, empowering them to develop new technologies and services s