Security Lead

About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to support its mission of revolutionizing lending with an open, efficient, and resilient platform. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $6 billion in assets supplied on the protocol, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone, not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

Location

Paris

Mission & Responsibilities

As Security Lead, you will own all things security, from ops to education, and become the go-to person for prevention, detection, and response, including:

• Build and implement secure systems/processes to prevent, detect, and respond to threats.

• Handle incident response (internal + external coordination)

• Manage access control and log monitoring: SSO, VPN, Notion, Slack, Github, cloud services, etc.

• Oversee physical security of employees (founders, execs, offices, conferences)

• Oversee data protection (e.g. deletion, encryption policies)

• Monitor phishing/news/security alerts and maintain internal education on security

• Define security processes for our partners and provide support on security communications

Must-have Experience & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in a similar Security Ops role

• Experience in a tech startup environment

• Comfortable with both strategic and hands-on work

• Familiar with common tools (Google Workspace, SSO, GH, etc.)

• Security incident response track record

• Ability to understand and evaluate the business impact of security decisions, balancing protection with operational agility and lean processes

• Clear communicator

• Low ego

Ready to shape the future of finance?

We are looking forward to receiving your application.