About The Role

Pagoda’s growing security team is looking for an experienced Senior Application Security Engineer to focus on the advancement of modern application security practices and partner closely with our engineering and product teams to provide security recommendations and identify security issues throughout the software development lifecycle. This includes secure design reviews, threat modeling, secure code review, and penetration testing.

This team member will be responsible for the security and integrity of our applications, possessing a deep understanding of software vulnerabilities and the ability to develop effective security solutions. This role requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement robust security measures.

What You'll Be Doing

• Support the Pagoda Software Development Lifecycle as an application security subject matter expert through design review, threat modeling, code review, and penetration testing
• Collaborate and advise engineering teams on application security best practices and vulnerability remediation
• Perform deep-dive security reviews to ensure all Pagoda products and services following secure design principles across our product portfolio (web, mobile, and APIs)
• Create and deliver hands-on software security training to engineering teams to increase security awareness
• Participate in on-call rotation to support engineering teams during incidents
• Role activities:
  
  • Manual source code review
  • Adhoc Pen Testing
  • WebApp/dApp PenTesting
  • Secure program design and implementation review
  • Threat modeling
  • Continuous secure assurance activities
  • Risk identification and categorization / management
  • Engineering education and engagement
  • Ownership of internal SAST/DAST toolset[s]

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in application security 
• Has set up or helped guide the creation of an Application Security program from scratch.
• Ability to perform design reviews, threat modeling, secure code reviews, or penetration testing with an attacker mindset
• Familiarity with modern SAST/DAST tooling.  Snyk and Stackhawk are important.
• Ability to review and dissect a Bug Bounty submission.  Craft a fix and work with appropriate teams to implement
• Strong background in application security best practices and familiarity with common vulnerabilities (e.g. SSRF, race conditions, privilege escalations, etc.)
• Familiarity with and ability to understand business objectives, business context, and security risk
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with developers

We'd Love If You Have

• A passion for security and Web3
• Strong Linux skills
• Experience in building lasting connections with development teams
• Experience in a startup environment
• Professional certifications e.g. CISSP  
• Familiarity with using one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, etc.)

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • Bug Bounty Interview
  • Technical Assessment with Engineering 
• Final Round
  
  • Meet with CTO
  • Pagoda Values Interview

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $200,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across all US locations. This does not include bonus, incentives, or benefits.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: leveling, relevant skills, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, there are other geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your preferred location during the hiring process. 

About The Role

Pagoda's Solutions team is looking for a senior software engineer to work on ecosystem critical features and solutions. You will be working through the whole range of NEAR Protocol stack to find opportunities for critical improvements and features that have a huge impact on the growth of the ecosystem. You will work on different parts of the stack including low-level code, protocol features, infrastructure that will create new products directly on protocol level while having a view on products that are being built on NEAR Protocol. 

You will be expected to fully own various components and drive their implementation from beginning to end, including the design, the implementation, the maintenance, and the documentation. You will be surrounded by highly productive and meticulous engineers who will be holding you to the same standards.

What You'll Be Doing

• Uncover critical gaps in the NEAR Protocol, design cutting-edge features, and build the solutions that will drive the ecosystem forward.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to revolutionize web3 products built on NEAR.
• Tackle diverse technical challenges across the stack, from low-level code to infrastructure enhancements, influencing the development landscape on NEAR.
• Drive projects from ideation to launch with meticulous execution, setting the standard for engineering excellence on our team.
• Communication and collaboration with a fully distributed team.

What We're Looking For

• You pick up complex concepts quickly and aren't afraid to dive into new domains (NEAR Protocol, ETH L2s, etc.).
• Experience with Rust is a huge plus, but fluency in systems-level languages (Go, C) will also set you up for success.
• Superb communication and the ability to thrive in highly dynamic, distributed teams.
• Always on the lookout for web3 innovations, ready to adapt them and make NEAR a leader in the space.

We'd Love If You Have

• Familiarity with cryptographic concepts.
• An understanding of the power of scaling solutions.
• P2P networks and their complexities are no stranger to you.
• You've navigated the fast-paced world of startups before.

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • Algorithms & Coding Interview
  • Navigating Ambiguity Interview
• Final Round
  • Large Systems Design Interview
  • Pagoda Values Interview

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $200,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across all US locations. This does not include bonus, incentives, or benefits.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: leveling, relevant skills, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, there are other geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your preferred location during the hiring process. 

About The Role

Pagoda is looking to strengthen our Finance team with a Senior Financial Analyst who can contribute with strong FP&A expertise and excel in a start-up environment. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate across all parts of the operation and bring a collaborative focus as we continue to build the blockchain operating system and contribute to the growth of the NEAR ecosystem.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, help guide and execute Financial Planning & Analysis with robust modeling, reporting and strategic vision. Your role has the depth to work alongside each stakeholder and be their go to financial partner.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive financial models to survey various business scenarios, resourcing opportunities, and potential risks. 
• Support the development of the annual budget and ongoing forecasting processes, including variance analysis and trend identification.
• Conduct deep dives into particular expense or revenue lines to understand their drivers and potential levers to enhance financial performance.
• Deliver in-depth modeling of operational and product data to support strategic decision-making and identify financial opportunities. 
• Generate and present timely, accurate, and insightful management reports to stakeholders, highlighting key performance indicators and variance analysis. 
• Develop and maintain dashboards to provide real-time visibility into financials, risks, opportunities and performance against company OKRs.
• Collaborate on the month end close process to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Perform analysis to ensure data integrity across systems, including monthly financial data loads and validations.
• Identify process improvement opportunities to enhance financial growth, cost optimization and reporting efficiency.

What We're Looking For

• Ideally you’ll have 7+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or management consulting roles.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or related fields is a must.
• Strong financial acumen and development within planning and reporting systems.
• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling and data analysis tools (e.g., Google Sheets, Causal).
• Self-starter who is intellectually curious and has strong interpersonal skills building cross-functional relationships and seeking projects independently.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Approach work as a strategic thinker, problem solver, and an eye for detail.

We'd Love If You Have

• Technical skills developed (SQL or API)
• Experience using business intelligence applications
• Experience with FinTech, Web3, blockchain, or traditional financial services
• MBA or relevant professional certification

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • 2 Team Interviews (Finance and HR)
• Final Round
  • 2 Team Interviews (Legal and Head of People)
  • Pagoda Values Interview

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $145,200 - $165,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across all US locations. This does not include bonus, incentives, or benefits.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: leveling, relevant skills, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, there are other geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your preferred location during the hiring process. 

About The Role

Our team's mission is to make decentralized applications as easy to use as centralized applications. We contribute to the development of a few technologies to allow this, including chain signatures, chain encryption, decentralized domains and fast auth. The end user experience is what we care about and these technologies are a means to an end.

We are looking for an experienced cryptographer who ensures the things we’ve built are theoretically sound and well implemented. From there you’ll develop a formal model of what we have so that we can confidently iterate on it.

The team is run on the principle that the best decisions are made by the person closest to the problem. An ideal candidate is confident enough to express their opinions, to proactively get involved in designing things with the team and to own cross discipline projects when possible.

This role is open to people working 40%-100%, work hours are flexible and the position is remote.

What You'll Be Doing

• Apply advances in cryptography improving security, scalability, and decentralization of NEAR’s chain signatures
• Designing a sound model of how to do smart contract controlled chain encryption
• Designing applications of these new facilities, including decentralized identities, efficient content sharing and data availability
• Educating engineers on how the cryptography we’re implementing works
• Helping other teams solve their cryptography problems

What We're Looking For

• Knowledge and experience with Cryptography
• An ability to teach complex Mathematical/Cryptographic concepts to Engineers
• An ability to collaborate with a team to design a cross disciplinary product

We'd Love If You Have

• Proficiency in MPC protocols and techniques
• Formal verification (Lean, Coq, Agda, ect.)
• Expertise with Zero Knowledge Proofs
• Experience programming in Rust (or C++/Haskell)
• Experience Implementing Cryptography Algorithms
• Blockchain Experience (Ethereum, Solana ect.)

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • Applied Cryptography Interview
  • Code Review Interview 
• Final Round
  • Cryptography Interview 
  • Pagoda Values Interview 

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $200,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across all US locations. This does not include bonus, incentives, or benefits.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: leveling, relevant skills, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, there are other geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your preferred location during the hiring process. 

About The Role

The Protocol Node team is looking for an experienced software engineer to focus on the infrastructure (local and decentralized) for running NEAR’s blockchain: make the client easy to run, improve its stability and performance, design and implement scalable blockchain infrastructures (e.g. RPC), design and implement support for these infrastructures. The work done by the Node team expands over automation, client code and release engineering, since all these components impact the experience and efficiency of running the NEAR client.

You will be working with complex concurrent systems, low-level code, complicated state machines, novel algorithms and infrastructure automation. You will be expected to own various components or features and drive their implementation from beginning to end, including the design, the implementation, the maintenance, and the documentation. You will be surrounded by highly productive and meticulous engineers who will be holding you to the same standards.

What You'll Be Doing

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team
• Design, implement and support infrastructures for running NEAR clients
• Own major client features 
• Lead the design and implementation of Rust components end to end while working with other team engineers
• Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap
• Facilitate cross-functional work within the organization
• Facilitate discussions and debates, consolidating  different perspectives to drive decisions to execution
• Anticipate risks and uncertainties and plan mitigations for them.
• Directly impact the team by reducing complexity of architectures, implementations, and processes.
• Set the right tempo for you and the team to deliver large initiatives on time.
• End-to-end ownership of your work (design, implementation, documentation, maintenance)
• Performance tuning and optimizations

What We're Looking For

• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a very good understanding of the blockchain protocol
• An effective  communicator and ability to remain calm under pressure and when juggling multiple priorities
• Familiarity building infrastructure that supports operating a production service
• Being comfortable with diving in multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigate through it
• Familiarity with algorithms and data structures
• Fluent in coding
• Ability to go from design to implementation fast
• Your work is done carefully with a great attention to detail
• Experience with Rust or alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field is a must

We'd Love If You Have

• Familiarity with internals of other blockchains
• Knowledge of cryptography
• Knowledge of compilers or virtual machines
• Knowledge of networks or operating systems
• Experience debugging complex concurrent systems

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  
  • Algorithms & Coding Interview
• Final Round
  • Large System Design Interview
  • Navigating Ambiguity Interview
  • DevOps/Troubleshooting Interview

About The Role:

The Protocol Engineering team at Pagoda is responsible for the infrastructure of Layer 1 Blockchain, NEAR Protocol. We focus on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to actualize the Open Web vision where people control their data, assets, and power of governance.

We are growing our engineering team that develops the blockchain protocol specification and its implementation. You will be working with complex concurrent systems, complicated state machines, and novel algorithms powering NEAR Protocol blockchain.

You will own various components and drive critical initiatives throughout their life cycles, including architecture, implementation, and maintenance. You will collaborate with highly knowledgeable and skilled colleagues who are passionate about solving hard problems that can disrupt the industry.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will work in a highly ambiguous space, identify problems to tackle, research and come up with solutions, thoroughly plan milestones, and drive end to end execution while mentoring other engineers. As a technical leader for a large team of engineers, you will work in close collaboration with the Engineering Managers, oversee ongoing projects, create roadmaps, coordinate cross team collaboration, and provide technical support and guidance to the protocol engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Bring in a high level of technical expertise, provide technical strategic guidance to the Protocol team.
• Architect and oversee implementation of complex blockchain components in Rust.
• Design and propose blockchain protocol innovative changes ensuring end-to-end ownership of critical blockchain components.
• Do performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements of blockchain.
• Audit and resolve critical problems across blockchain infrastructure to provide the best user experience.
• Contribute to the open source community by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase and participating in community events.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and drive the team’s technical roadmap, control budget and do technical resource planning.
• Facilitate technical discussions, consolidate different perspectives to drive goals to execution.
• In collaboration with Engineering Managers create a dynamic and accountable performance environment ensuring professional development of each team member.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape in the blockchain engineering domain.
• Collaborate with a fully distributed team around the world.

What We're Looking For:

• Blockchain enthusiast with ability to
  • Navigate through ambiguity and clarifying unknowns 
  • Quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a very good understanding of the blockchain protocol
  • Write clean yet efficient code.
  • Make trade off decisions for ruthless prioritization
  • Lay out priorities and methodically make progress towards the goal. 
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism.
• Experience debugging complex concurrent systems.
• Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design while not knowing all the details.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must.
• Proven ability to work with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective communication skills to convey your ideas and drive technical discussions with other engineers.

We'd Love If You Have:

• Professional experience with Rust alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go.
• Familiarity with internals of other blockchains
• Experience in building a blockchain smart contract or running a node in a blockchain network.
• Knowledge of cryptography.
• Knowledge of compilers or virtual machines.
• Knowledge of networks or operating systems.

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • Large System Design Interview
  • Technical Presentation & Q&A
• Final Round
  
  • Leadership Interview - Technical Leadership and Adaptability  
  • Near Culture Interview 

About The Role:

Pagoda is shepherding a future where NEAR becomes the blockchain operating system. We believe that re-inventing how software is made and distributed is our greatest opportunity to open economic access to those who are not fully integrated into the global economy. Our products empower people to find opportunity, invent new experiences, and collaborate. Let's build an Open Web world. A world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance.

Pagoda’s growing security team is looking for a Security Engineer to partner with our Protocol team. This position will be primarily responsible for identifying, analyzing, solutioning, and accounting for security as it pertains to the NEAR Blockchain; embedded within Pagoda’s Protocol team.

As a Security Engineer you will work closely with the Protocol team to make sure that NEAR Protocol is secure, robust, and performant. You will focus on strengthening the security of the protocol through a combination of architectural improvements, automated testing, and manual auditing of the codebase. You will also work closely with protocol engineers to ensure the security of new features and other changes to the existing protocol.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Identify ways to systematically improve the security of the protocol without compromising its performance and scalability
• Set up testing infrastructure to ensure the security of the protocol
• Security audit of the protocol implementation, including consensus, sharding, state transition, etc.
• Handle security vulnerability reports that are related to the protocol
• Analyze risk and maintain a registry and remediation/improvement roadmap as it pertains to the protocol

What We're Looking For:

• Development or software engineering experience and a deep passion for informations security
• Strong security engineering background and programming experience
• Experience with a modern system programming language (eg C++, Rust)
• Demonstrated experience evaluating code for vulnerabilities and weaknesses
• Familiarity with low-level programming, operating systems, and virtual machines. Experience with WebAssembly is a plus
• Practical experience of security analysis tools such as: fuzzing, SAST scanners, linters etc.
• Experience in securing large scale distributed systems
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with remote teams
• Results & goal orientated

We'd Love If You Have:

• A passion for security and Web3
• Experience in a start-up environment
• Experience with software verification technologies, including model checking and formal verification

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • Protocol Security Interview
• Final Round
  • Large System Design Interview
  • Navigating Ambiguity Interview
  • Concurrency & Parallelism Interview

About The Role

Pagoda Solutions team is looking for a senior software engineer to work on ecosystem critical features and solutions. You will be working through the whole range of NEAR Protocol stack to find opportunities for critical improvements and features that have a huge impact on the growth of the ecosystem. You will work on different parts of the stack including low-level code, protocol features, infrastructure that will create new products directly on protocol level while having a view on products that are being built on NEAR Protocol. 

You will be expected to fully own various components and drive their implementation from beginning to end, including the design, the implementation, the maintenance, and the documentation. You will be surrounded by highly productive and meticulous engineers who will be holding you to the same standards.

What You'll Be Doing

• Discover ecosystem critical feature needs, design and implement them;
• Work with internal and external product managers, technical stakeholders to gather feedback and work with internal teams to deliver product/protocol improvements.
• Work with the multitude of teams to implement features that are important to the success of external and internal stakeholders;
• Keep a close eye on innovations on web3 space, gather insights and implement critical features to enable web3 developers on NEAR Protocol.
• Communication and collaboration with a fully distributed team.

What We're Looking For

• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a very good understanding of the NEAR protocol, and several ETH L2 technologies;
• Experience or ability to work with systems-level languages, Rust is preferred, but Go and C would also be eligible;
• You should be a great communicator and remain calm under pressure or when juggling multiple priorities;
• Being comfortable with diving into multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigating through it;
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must

We'd Love If You Have

• Familiarity with cryptography
• An understanding of rollups and layer 2 technologies
• Familiarity with distributed systems and p2p networks
• Experience working at a startup;
• Prior experience with blockchain technologies

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• 1st Round
  • Algorithms & Coding Interview
  • Navigating Ambiguity Interview
• Final Round
  • Large Systems Design Interview
  • Pagoda Values Interview

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $165,750 - $195,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across all US locations. This does not include bonus, incentives, or benefits.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: leveling, relevant skills, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, there are other geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your preferred location during the hiring process.