About the position
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be. Security is a primary competency at Coinbase, and the Security Operations team keeps a watchful eye over every aspect of it. Every day, we go to battle against some of the most sophisticated attackers in the world to protect billions of dollars worth of digital assets and ensure that our customers and employees can enjoy a safe, trusted experience. As Coinbase scales globally, our team is scaling along with it, using a blend of tooling, automation, and strategic team growth to ensure that we’re well-equipped to protect the next billion users of crypto.
Responsibilities
- Building and implementing detections, preventions, security controls, and automations to deter insider threats and improve holistic security posture
- Testing and maintaining security tooling, particularly for endpoint detection and investigation
- Collaborating cross-functionally with Security, Infrastructure, IT, and Legal to obtain necessary technical information and evaluate and advise them of downstream impacts of their builds/deployments
- Linking disparate information such that it can be aggregated, visualized, and interpreted for indications of threat
- Assisting with investigations as needed, which may involve rapidly building tools or extending capabilities to aid response efforts
Requirements
- Experience designing and implementing Insider Threat technologies (such as SIEM, UBA, DLP) and understanding of investigations and/or the intelligence cycle
- Comfortable manipulating logs, tables, and data lakes to engineer custom detections and dashboards
- Mastery of SQL and coding languages like Python, regularly manipulating logs to create custom alerts and automations with SOAR
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with infrastructure, IT, and response teams to design and implement technical controls
- Actively aware of the insider threat landscape, understanding the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of working with sensitive information
- Discreet, thoughtful, and seeking to coordinate systemic, cross-functional solutions to mitigate risk
- Adept at translating complex problems into readily implemented (and preferably automated) solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable composing briefs and assessments for leadership and training others
- Team player, comfortable as both a novice and an expert
- High degree of empathy, trusted by coworkers to help tackle security problems without being judgmental
- 5-10 years or more of combined experience in security/technology or other analytic roles
Nice-to-haves
- Diverse perspective, possibly from an unconventional route into the security career
- Familiarity with blockchains, cryptocurrency, and onchain projects
- Experience crafting metrics that make the intangible tangible
- Experience in incident response, data protection, risk management, counterintelligence, fraud detection, intellectual property theft, access and identity management, or IT engineering
Benefits
- Target annual salary range: $211,650—$249,000 USD
- Target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
