Staff Engineer, Security Platform Development

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About the role

Who We Are At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me , Do the Right Thing , and Get Things Done . These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more. About the Opportunity As a Staff Engineer, y ou'll own the build-out of our security engineering and DevSecOps capabilities: designing and developing the security products, platform services, and SDKs/Agents that embed protection directly into how code is written, built, shipped, and run. This is a role for someone with real depth in security, broad coverage across the stack, and the engineering muscle to ship. Just as important is the ability to drive adoption — security that lands in complex, fast-moving business environments rather than sitting in a policy document. What You’ll Be Doing • Architect and build our end-to-end DevSecOps platform and the SDKs/Agents behind our security products, covering code, build, artifacts, images, deployment, and runtime. • Lead runtime protection through RASP and Java Agent — bytecode instrumentation, runtime hooking, and detection/interception engines using ASM, ByteBuddy, and Instrumentation, with continuous tuning for performance, stability, and compatibility. • Integrate and productise scanning capabilities across SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, code scanning, and image scanning. You'll embed tools like SonarQube and Coverity deep into CI/CD and close the loop from detection through blocking, remediation, and re-test. • Go deep on application security offence and defence — designing detection, remediation, hardening, and counter-measures for XSS, SQL injection, SSRF, deserialisation, command execution, authentication/authorisation flaws, and API security. • Bring AI-native security engineering to life. Apply LLMs and AI Agents to vulnerability analysis, rule generation, false-positive attribution, remediation guidance, security knowledge capture, and engineering automation — and build a coherent view of the architecture, mechanics, and security implications. • Embed as the security technical expert inside engineering teams, driving security standards, onboarding specifications, release gates, risk tiering, and remediation mechanisms that measurably lift the security baseline and delivery quality. • Partner across engineering, architecture, SRE, QA, and business teams on priority projects, solving the genuinely hard security problems and turning the solutions into reusable platform capability and repeatable practice. What We Look For In You • Strong computer science and security fundamentals — deep understanding of operating systems, networking, compilers and the JVM, distributed systems, application security, cloud-native security, and supply chain security. Both breadth and depth. • Expert-level Java, with hands-on depth in the JVM, ClassLoader, Java Agent, ASM, ByteBuddy, bytecode instrumentation, and performance profiling and tuning. Plus working proficiency in Python or Go. • Substantial production experience with RASP, SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, image security, and code scanning — enough to design a capability, integrate the engine,

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