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Coinbase Corporate Security (CorpSec) is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to build and maintain security controls that protect corporate infrastructure, user devices, enterprise applications, and network communications. You'll partner closely with IT and engineering teams to identify risks and ship tailored solutions that keep users secure without introducing unnecessary friction, directly protecting Coinbase's most sensitive data and critical assets.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain security solutions to harden Coinbase's macOS, Chromebook, and mobile endpoints, focusing on secure configurations, compliance, threat detection, and user experience.
- Perform security reviews on enterprise systems and software that enable user productivity across the corporate environment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to integrate endpoint and SaaS security into broader corporate engineering initiatives.
- Identify and close data exfiltration paths introduced by local AI agents and developer tooling (e.g., coding assistants, LLM harnesses) running on corporate endpoints.
- Provide technical guidance and code review support to engineers on the CorpSec team, raising the security bar across the organization.
Qualifications & Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 2 years securing macOS or similar user endpoints in an enterprise environment.
- Proven ability to write production code (services, integrations, automations) that supports corporate infrastructure security.
- Experience scoping, prioritizing, and shipping security projects end-to-end with minimal direction in fast-moving environments.
- Familiarity with device trust, zero trust network access, or endpoint communication security products (e.g., Cloudflare, Prisma Access, Zscaler).
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus)
$186,065 - $218,900 USD
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About Coinbase
Coinbase, founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in San Francisco, is the largest US-listed crypto exchange (NASDAQ: COIN) with 110M+ verified users and $300B+ quarterly traded volume. Products span retail, Advanced Trade, Wallet self-custody, Base L2 and institutional prime. Public since 2021, Coinbase drives US policy engagement and proof-of-reserves standards. The bar is high for security thinking, regulatory judgment and shipping consumer-grade crypto products. As the premier US-listed digital asset platform, Coinbase sets industry standards for security architecture, regulatory engagement, and developer-first Web3 ecosystem scaling. Coinbase recruits across engineering, risk compliance, product design, and business development to expand compliant Web3 financial services.