# Head of Security & IT

The 4 biggest blockchain strengths are also its weakness Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning Decentralization leads to too many standards Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL. Blockchains are optimized for writes, not reads. They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases. Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result: Fragmented standards Exponential complexity No accountability for interpretation Events without economic meaning Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record. Allium is building the

- **Id**: 3551878
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/allium-head-of-security-it>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T20:21:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T18:53:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 12426
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Equity, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain Infrastructure, Blockchain Analytics

## Company

- **Id**: 175456
- **Name**: Allium
- **Domain**: allium.so
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/allium-2>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0.417
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 105
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 182000
- **Max usd**: 342000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 2716

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Consensus** — Optional: no
- **Ethereum** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Staking** — Optional: no
- **Uniswap** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T23:01:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 11; Filings 12m: 11; Filings prev 12m: 1; Green card filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 105
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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