[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer @NEAR Foundation

Role Description

We are hiring a Senior IT Security Engineer to be the deep technical owner of our information security work. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who has spent years operating at the engineering edge of IT and security and is now looking for broad scope and meaningful ownership.

You will bring the technical depth to design, harden, and automate the security systems and controls our team and ecosystem rely on, and you will lead our information security program end-to-end. You will work alongside our IT Director, who owns the broader IT function, and partner with our IT Operations team, who handle day-to-day support and provisioning — letting you focus squarely on security engineering and program leadership.

Near-term priorities include:

• Leading SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 readiness at NEAR AI
• Supporting the needs of the NEAR Security Committee (NSC)
• Partnering with the incoming NEAR Intents Head of Security on shared standards

Qualifications

• 7+ years in information security with strong IT engineering depth
• Demonstrated ownership of SOC II Type 2 and ideally ISO 27001 readiness and audit cycles in a fast-moving environment
• Deep hands-on experience across IAM, endpoint, and at least one cloud (AWS or GCP)
• Comfortable scripting (Python, Go, or Bash) and automating IT and security workflows
• Practical experience with SSO/IdP platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, Entra), MDM/EDR tooling, and modern logging/SIEM stacks
• Strong written communication — clear policy, clean post-incident reviews, credible audit narratives
• Pragmatic about risk and process; calm under pressure; bias to action
• Crypto or AI/ML exposure is a plus

Requirements

• Lead the information security program across NEAR Foundation
• Drive SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 readiness and ongoing compliance at NEAR AI
• Support the needs and operation of the NEAR Security Committee (NSC)
• Run logging, monitoring, and alerting; lead investigation and response for security incidents
• Run vulnerability management, third-party risk reviews, and security awareness across the organization
• Own the security architecture and hardening of our identity, access, and endpoint stack
• Engineer security and compliance automation across our SaaS estate
• Be the senior technical escalation point for complex security issues across the organization
• Lead security tooling rollouts and security vendor selection
• Help maintain a secure cloud footprint (AWS / GCP)
• Maintain the security policy library

Benefits

• A competitive compensation aligned with senior-level security engineering roles
• A combination of salary and NEAR token incentives
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• A remote-first work environment
• A professional development and learning budget

Company Description

NEAR Foundation supports the growth of the NEAR ecosystem — including NEAR AI, NEAR Intents, and the underlying NEAR Protocol — across multiple entities and product nodes. Strong IT and security underpin everything we do, and we are scaling the function to match the size and complexity of the ecosystem.