Senior Security Engineer, Digital Asset Custody

Job overview

The Senior Security Engineer, Digital Asset Custody role is onsite four days per week in Southlake, TX; Austin is listed as a backup location. Compensation is not specified. The role supports Schwab’s digital-asset custody strategy and platforms. As a hands-on technical authority, the engineer sets custody architecture and makes critical design decisions for key management, cryptography, policy enforcement, resilience, and incident response. The work aims to keep custody systems secure, resilient, auditable, and prepared for failure while supporting future assets and products.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve key-management architectures using HSMs and MPC
• define secure key generation, storage, rotation, signing, and recovery
• design custody policy controls and governance
• own custody-specific disaster recovery strategies and incident runbooks
• lead post-incident analysis and remediation
• identify architectural and operational risks
• use generative and agentic AI tools to support design, threat modeling, documentation, testing, and reviews.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior security engineer

digital asset custody

cryptography

hsm

mpc

key management

blockchain

incident response

disaster recovery

southlake tx

onsite 4 days/week

mindlance

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

12-month duration; three openings; potential conversion to FTE; employer is open to candidates requiring current or future sponsorship, with potential costs to be highlighted.

About the employer

Mindlance is hiring for this role. Industry: Trust, Fiduciary, and Custody Activities. Sector: 52.