Job Overview
Location
Remote EMEA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Security Engineer
Date Posted
March 30, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As the Lead Security Architect at LI.FI GmbH, you will own and elevate security across the entire company, defining the security strategy, strengthening practices, and driving solutions across infrastructure, applications, and internal systems. This is a hands-on, senior leadership role focused on application security, compliance, and emerging Web3 and AI-related security risks, where you will set the direction for secure building, strengthen product security posture, identify vulnerabilities, and introduce scalable security processes and tooling.
- • You will own and strengthen company-wide security and compliance by leading security efforts across infrastructure, applications, internal systems, and employee devices; identifying risks and vulnerabilities across the organisation and ensuring they are addressed; establishing scalable security processes and best practices across teams; and owning the organisation's compliance posture by defining target frameworks, driving progress against them, and ensuring requirements are reflected in day-to-day operations.
- • You will coordinate audits and external security work by owning relationships with external security firms and auditors; leading the organisation through compliance framework certifications end-to-end; planning and running security reviews and external audits, ensuring findings are tracked and resolved; and acting as the internal authority on external security requirements and regulatory expectations.
- • You will build security awareness across the company by defining and owning the company's security awareness and training programme; and setting standards for access management, device security, and operational security hygiene.
- • You will drive application security by defining and owning the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (Secure SDLC) across the engineering organisation; working closely with engineering teams to ensure secure design and implementation of products — getting into the detail where needed; personally reviewing tools, frameworks, and architectures for security risks and ensuring findings drive action; and setting the standard for how developers integrate security practices into the development lifecycle.
- • You will own Web3 security by bringing a solid understanding of Web3-specific security risks — smart contract vulnerabilities, protocol exploits, wallet and key management, and on-chain threat vectors; applying experience from working in a Web3 environment to identify risks relevant to our infrastructure and products; working directly with engineering teams to ensure Web3 security considerations are embedded in how we build and ship; and staying current on the evolving Web3 threat landscape to ensure the organisation is positioned ahead of emerging risks.
- • You will own AI security by identifying and mitigating security risks related to AI-driven tooling, agents, and automation; and staying ahead of emerging threats introduced by AI integration across our stack.
- • You will implement security tooling and automation by owning the security tooling strategy — defining requirements, evaluating solutions, and driving implementation; establishing monitoring standards, incident response processes, and security workflows; and ensuring security is consistently embedded in engineering pipelines and tooling.
- • You will work closely with engineering, AI, automation, and operations teams, and collaborate with the existing security architect to strengthen security practices across the company, while embracing LI.FI’s culture of embracing differences, owning tasks end-to-end, failing forward, and having fun together in a respectful and light-hearted environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proven experience owning or leading a security function — not just executing within one
- • Background in security engineering or architecture — you understand how systems are built and where they break
- • Experience building or maturing security programmes in fast-moving engineering organisations
- • Experience in a Web3 or payments fintech environment
- • Solid knowledge of key compliance frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, DORA, MiCA, the EU AI Act, NIS2, and related standards
- • Experience guiding organisations through certification and audit processes end-to-end — not just familiarity with the frameworks, but having done the work
- • Strong understanding of modern application security practices
- • Experience with security reviews, threat modelling, and vulnerability management
- • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure security and developer tooling
- • Understanding of AI security risks and emerging attack vectors is a strong plus
- • Experience managing or mentoring security teams is a plus
🏖️ Benefits
- • Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023 and Vietnam in 2024 were a blast, Marrakech in March 2025 was blast-ier; let’s see what happens in 2026!)
- • 30 days of PTO
- • Flexible remote days
- • Flexible working hours
- • Equity participation from day 1
- • Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment)
- • An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months (pro-rated the first year)
- • A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc.
Skills & Technologies
Senior
Remote
About LI.FI GmbH
LI.FI GmbH builds cross-chain liquidity aggregation infrastructure for decentralized applications. Its software development kit aggregates bridges and decentralized exchanges, enabling apps to offer token swaps and bridging across 20-plus EVM and non-EVM networks through a single integration. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Berlin, the company provides routing algorithms, smart-order routing, and transaction simulation to reduce fragmentation in multichain DeFi. The platform serves wallets, decentralized exchanges, and Web3 applications seeking seamless liquidity access without managing multiple bridge integrations or liquidity pools.
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