Founding Security Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio

Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with $3.6B+ in assets under management and 160+ portfolio companies. Our Talent team connects people with roles across our portfolio, opening the door to opportunities through our Talent Network.

This is not a listing for an internal role at Dragonfly. This posting is to connect you directly with one or more companies in our portfolio that are actively hiring across Security Engineering, Infrastructure Security, Cloud

Security, Application Security, Network Security, and Founding Security

Engineering roles.

WHAT THESE ROLES MAY INVOLVE

• Depending on the company and level, responsibilities may include:
• Designing and operating security infrastructure across cloud, network, and production environments
• Building and managing PKI, certificates, authentication, and key management systems
• Designing secure network architecture, segmentation, private connectivity, and zero-trust systems
• Owning IAM, secrets management, cloud KMS, HSMs, and access controls
• Implementing secure API infrastructure, request signing, replay protection, and audit logging
• Building security monitoring, anomaly detection, and incident response processes
• Partnering with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to identify and address security risks
• Managing penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and remediation
• Supporting security audits and compliance programs such as SOC 2 and ISO

27001

• Building security processes and infrastructure from the ground up in early-stage environments
• Collaborating on smart contract, blockchain, wallet, custody, or other crypto-specific security systems

WHAT PORTFOLIO COMPANIES ARE GENERALLY LOOKING FOR

• Strong experience building or operating production security systems
• Deep understanding of network, infrastructure, cloud, or application security
• Experience with areas such as PKI, IAM, secrets management, HSMs, KMS, network segmentation, or zero-trust architecture
• Comfort owning security projects end-to-end and working directly with engineering teams
• Ability to operate in fast-moving environments where security infrastructure is still being built
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of how security decisions affect production systems
• Experience responding to incidents, managing audits, or working with external security partners
• Ability to work across technical and non-technical teams

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience at a crypto, fintech, payments, trading, custody, or financial infrastructure company
• Experience working with regulated financial institutions or institutional counterparties
• Familiarity with smart contract or blockchain security
• Experience with cryptographic signing, attestation, or multi-party signing systems
• Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, penetration testing, or security audits
• Previous experience as an early or founding security engineer

PROCESS

We’ll confidentially match you with portfolio companies aligned with your background, skill set, and interests If you and a team are interested, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction. If there isn’t a match today, we’ll keep you top of mind for future opportunities.

COMPENSATION

Compensation varies by company, location, experience, and level. Security Engineering opportunities within our portfolio generally fall within approximately:

• Early / Mid: $120,000–$175,000
• Senior: $175,000–$225,000
• Staff / Lead / Founding: $200,000–$300,000+

The compensation range reflects variation by seniority, location, and hiring company. Final compensation and equity are confirmed with the specific hiring company.

Our portfolio companies are globally distributed, offering remote, hybrid, and in-person roles worldwide. They’re building across the entire crypto ecosystem—including stablecoins and payments, DeFi, CeFi, exchanges and trading, infrastructure, L1s and L2s, Crypto x AI, Prediction Markets, ZK, custody, and more.

All candidate submissions are strictly confidential.

Submit your information below, and we’ll reach out if there’s a potential fit.