About Digital Asset & the Canton Network Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance. At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network - the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance.

Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney— we are on a mission to transform finance— and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.

If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

About The Role

: Digital Asset enables mission critical workflows in the financial industry through development using Daml and runs on the Canton ledger and the Canton Network. The security team supports this mission by providing infrastructure and application security guidance and tooling for DA products and services.

Responsibilities

: As a Security Engineer, you will have the opportunity to shape our security posture in many domains including; application security, vulnerability management, IAM, cloud and network security, incident response, digital forensics, DevSecOps, etc. Participate in and, in some cases, lead security incident response efforts, including initial containment, investigation, forensic analysis, and post-incident reporting. Contribute to the secure design and architecture of new and existing systems, ensuring security is integrated from the start (Security by Design).

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What We'Re Looking For

: Vulnerability & Threat Management: Proven ability to perform vulnerability assessments and run penetration tests, interpret the results, and prioritize remediation efforts. Experience with threat modeling and threat intelligence is also key. Cloud Security: Working knowledge of securing Google Cloud (and AWS, Azure).

This includes identity and access management (IAM), GKE, and Cloud Armor, logging, and data protection in the cloud. , Python, GoLang, or Bash) to automate security tasks, analyze logs, and develop custom tools. Kubernetes and Container Hardenin g: Expertise in securing GKE cluster components, including leveraging native features like Pod Security Standards (PSS) enforcement, and Network Policies to control Pod-to-Pod traffic and runtime security observability.

AppSec Security: Integrating security checks (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, SCA) into CI/CD pipelines, and hardening build infrastructure and workflows. Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally experience writing technical documentation and specifications. Some experience with cryptographic keys, KMS, HSMs 3-7 years of experience in IT and application security.

Bachelor’s Degree Cyber Security, Computer Science or related field. Based in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area The range below may vary if based outside the New York tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut).

Pay Transparency

$160,000 — $190,000 USD At Digital Asset, we are committed to

Compensation

structures that reward impact consistently across our global teams.

AppSec Engineer