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Senior Security Engineer

Blockaid

Blockaid

Software Engineering
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Nov 14, 2025

Senior Security Engineer

  • Engineering
  • Tel Aviv

Description

Blockaid is redefining trust in blockchain through advanced, integrated security. Our on-chain security platform is trusted by leading Web3 companies—including Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Backpack, Stellar, and others—to detect, understand, and automatically prevent or minimize the impact of fraud, scams, hacks, and financial threats.

We are backed by top-tier global investors including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Cyberstarts—firms known for supporting the most innovative and influential companies in technology and cybersecurity.

Blockaid is redefining trust in blockchain through advanced, integrated security. Our on-chain security platform is trusted by leading Web3 companies—including Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Backpack, Stellar, and others—to detect, understand, and automatically prevent or minimize the impact of fraud, scams, hacks, and financial threats.

We are backed by top-tier global investors, including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Cyberstarts—firms known for supporting the most innovative and influential companies in technology and cybersecurity.

We are looking for a skilled Senior Security Engineer to join our team and help build, implement, and maintain our security controls, monitoring capabilities, and incident response processes. In this role, you will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and SOC teams to ensure our systems and environments remain secure, resilient, and aligned with industry best practices.

Your Chain of Impact:

  • Implement, manage, and optimize security tools and controls across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments.
  • Collaborate with R&D and DevOps to embed security best practices into CI/CD pipelines and development processs
  • Monitor security events, investigate alerts, and support incident response activities.
  • Work directly with SOC teams to enhance detection, logging, response playbooks, and monitoring coverage.
  • Perform security assessments, vulnerability management, and remediation planning.
  • Automate security tasks, logging, and monitoring pipelines to improve efficiency and visibility
  • Support threat modeling, risk assessments, and hardening efforts across environments
  • Evaluate new security technologies and contribute to tool selection and integration.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience as a Security Engineer, SOC Analyst, or similar security-focused role
  • Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP), Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
  • Practical experience with SOC processes, including SIEM/SOAR, alert triage, incident response, and detection tuning
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals: IAM, network security, endpoint protection, encryption, logging
  • Experience with security tools (EDR, WAF, vulnerability scanners, IAM solutions, etc.)
  • Knowledge of scripting or automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
  • Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, CIS Benchmarks