Sky Mavis is hiring a Cloud Security Engineer in Engineering & Operations (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam).
About Sky Mavis
Sky Mavis is building the future of gaming. We're the creators of Axie Infinity, the most successful Web3 game ever, and Ronin, a purpose-built blockchain that ranked as the 4th most-used chain in 2024, behind Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.
We've processed over $4.3 billion in on-chain volume and are backed by more than $170 million from top-tier investors, including a16z, Accel, Libertus Capital, and Paradigm.
Our team moves fast, builds with intention, and believes in a world where players truly own what they earn. If you're excited by open economies, massive scale, and shaping new digital frontiers, join us.
About the Role
The Security team drives Web2 and Web3 security for all of Sky Mavis games and digital assets, including the Ronin blockchain network, Ronin wallet, and more. With experience spanning many blockchain startups as well as recognized companies (Coinbase, Circle, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Amazon, etc), the security team is building strong security policies and SDLC processes.
The Cloud Security Engineer is responsible for the security of Sky Mavis cloud infrastructure and processes that allow the engineering team to provision infrastructure to run services that power Axie Infinity and Ronin products in a simple, safe, and secure manner.
Sky Mavis is fast adopting GenAI solutions to 100x our engineers. The security engineer will have the opportunity to learn and AI to enhance and automate their workstream to improve our security best practices. This role is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Key Responsibilities
- Security assessments: Learn, build, improve, and maintain cloud provisioning services written in Terraform. Perform internal and external assessments of Sky Mavis' cloud infrastructure. Identify gaps in security coverage and potential vulnerabilities/risks.
- Monitoring: Ensure logging of all resources and continuously monitor the infrastructure. GenAI to automate scanning and filtering (to reduce false positives) of security alerts.
- Incident response: Maintain and update a runbook of procedures for handling and escalating security incidents.
- Evaluate new technology: Identify and evaluate new security technologies/tooling to adopt internally to continuously improve Sky Mavis' security posture.
- Drive impact: Identify security gaps and drive positive change to improve Sky Mavis' security posture.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work with engineering and growth teams to deliver on product initiatives. Works well with others and is highly responsive.
What We Look For
- Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field.
- Experience: 2+ years in software engineering. Designed, built, scaled, and maintained backend services and infrastructure.
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Skills/Knowledge
: Hands-on expertise in cloud security, infrastructure-as-code (terraform), HMS.
- Attitude: Bias for action, driven to learn, top talent.
- Strong communicator and active listener: Clear communication (English) and capable of building trust across diverse teams.
Bonus
: Gamer, active crypto user, does hackathons on weekends.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience with deploying and hosting blockchain nodes.
- Python scripting.
About Sky Mavis
Sky Mavis, founded in 2018 by Trung Nguyen, Aleksander Larsen, Andy Ho, Jeffrey Zirlin and Tu Doan in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is the gaming studio behind Axie Infinity and the Ronin blockchain. Its flagship game pioneered play-to-earn with collectible Axies, marketplace trading and token economies that reached global adoption in 2021, while Ronin provides an Ethereum-linked sidechain optimized for gaming with low fees and fast finality. Headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City with a base in Singapore, Sky Mavis combines game development, chain infrastructure and publishing tools for player-owned economies. After navigating the 2022 Ronin bridge exploit and rebuild, the team doubled down on security, creator programs and ecosystem grants. Backed by leading investors, it continues to support developers building on Ronin. Expect a resilient, game-first culture that values community building, economy design and shipping polished experiences for mainstream players.