Senior Security Engineer at NEAR Foundation

<h2>About NEAR Foundation</h2> <p>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.</p> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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), and partnering with the incoming NEAR Intents Head of Security on shared standards.</p> <h2>What You'll Do</h2> <p><strong>Information Security Program</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the information security program across NEAR Foundation, with a dotted line into NEAR Intents’ security leadership on shared work.</li> <li>Drive SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 readiness and ongoing compliance at NEAR AI: control design, evidence collection, auditor liaison, and remediation.</li> <li>Support the needs and operation of the NEAR Security Committee (NSC).</li> <li>Run logging, monitoring, and alerting; lead investigation and response for security incidents.</li> <li>Run vulnerability management, third-party risk reviews, and security awareness across the organization.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security Engineering</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the security architecture and hardening of our identity, access, and endpoint stack (SSO/MFA, MDM, EDR, conditional access, privileged access) — partnering with the IT Director and IT Operations team on day-to-day operations.</li> <li>Engineer security and compliance automation across our SaaS estate — evidence collection, control monitoring, access reviews, and workflows that tighten controls and reduce manual work.</li> <li>Be the senior technical escalation point for complex security issues across the organization.</li> <li>Lead security tooling rollouts and security vendor selection; provide deep security input into the broader IT roadmap and technica