Manager, Blockchain Security - Research and Engineering
We’re Coinbase. We’re the world’s most trusted way to join the crypto revolution, serving more than 89 million accounts in more than 100 countries.
Our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web 3.0 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Finally, we seek people who are excited to learn about and live crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.
Ready to #LiveCrypto? Who you are:
- You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.
- You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0.
- You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
- You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
- You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
- You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.
Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 50 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy and increase economic freedom around the world.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.
Security is a primary competency at Coinbase, and the Security 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.
Blockchain Security (BlockSec) team’s mission is to Secure funds and data from protocol through wallet. Coinbase has a unique opportunity: enabling our customers to easily and securely interface with blockchains, a.k.a. digital asset networks, a.k.a. cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are a cutting edge technology, with many unique security considerations for any entity that supports interaction with them. Understanding those unique considerations requires deep expertise in blockchains and the ability to maintain that expertise over time.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
The mission of the Blockchain Security - Research and Engineering team is to enable the whole blockchain security org to operate on the cutting edge of solving crypto security problems.
We expect to accomplish this with a multi-pronged strategy, including identifying and analyzing risks of emerging trends in Blockchain Security, developing minimum viable products to improve Blockchain Security team’s performance, understanding new risks posed by novel cryptoasset design, and ensuring we have a pipeline to apply all these learnings to designing and maintaining Coinbase backend engineering systems. The role includes:
- Enable the Blockchain Security org to operate on the cutting edge of solving crypto security problems
- Stay on the cutting edge w/ Blockchain Security knowledge by identifying trends in Blockchain security using external research in the industry, security incidents and risk identified by Blockchain Security
- Propose solutions and develop PoCs/MVPs to scale risk identification, management, and mitigation processes
- Collaborate with BlockSec Risk identification teams to understand heuristics for new risk trends
- Provide solutions to achieve 10x scale in BlockSec operations
- Ideation and experimentation to develop BlockSec product roadmap
- Collaborate with BlockSec Platform team to scale the BlockSec products
- Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Coinbase culture and products
- Coach your direct reports to develop blockchain research process and novel automation solutions
- Investigate specific or emerging blockchain risk scenarios and provide consumable conclusions for the broader team
- Collaborate with cross functional partners to prioritize blocksec research roadmap to better support security review of upcoming product features
- Set clear targets and objectives, and establish KPIs for the team
What we're looking for in you:
- At least 2 years experience in managing versatile security teams that have had to adapt to the changing needs of a business experiencing rapid growth
- At least 6 years experience and solid foundation in security topics such as product security, application security, security operations, or third party security
- Expertise in security research, security product ideation and developing PoCs
- Expertise in building and leading a security research and engineering team with the ability to provide hands-on technical guidance to the team
- You have experience or willingness to research BlockSec risks and risk identification and mitigation methods to develop repeatable innovation
- You have knowledge of engineering/tooling and ability to quickly develop working prototypes
- You have the unique ability to investigate a new topic using white papers or blog posts
- Ability to review multiple security incidents to identify risk patterns
- Ability to design and improve procedures that solve problems in simple and scalable ways
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to drive alignment
- You are passionate about growing people and helping them achieve their goals
- You have an energy and self-drive for continuous learning as Crypto is a constantly and rapidly changing space
- Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning
Nice to haves:
- You have developed tools to improve efficiency of a security organization
- You have experience in crypto/blockchain technology
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