Location: San Francisco, CA

Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 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 crypto economy, 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 assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning. Second, 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. 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.

Read more about our values and culture here.

Coinbase stores more digital currency than any company in the world, making us a tier 1 target on the internet. Given breaches are the number one cause of death amongst digital currency companies, security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale. As a Security Engineer, you will be responsible for building the security controls protecting Coinbase. You will develop and foster partnerships with key business groups to ensure that we're delivering the right tools and services to the right people at the right time.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop innovative solutions by using the latest in security technology and applied cryptography.
• Design, deploy, and operate security-critical architectures and services.
• Identify opportunities and debug difficult technical problems to make systems more secure, performant, and efficient.
• Write high quality, well-tested, and secure code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Partner with engineers and product teams to drive security-critical projects into a tangible roadmap.
• Coach and mentor engineers; help calibrate and develop the Security Engineering team.

What we look for in you:

• At least 7+ years software engineering experience in industry
• Passionate about improving and solving for complex security problems. 
• Experience with distributed systems and large scale engineering challenges.
• Proficient in a modern high level language Python, Ruby, or Go and familiar with gRPC + Protobuf.
• Comfortable leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and engineering teams.

Nice to haves:

• Deep experience in Cryptography and/or Authentication/Authorization systems
• Experience in securing large Rails, NodeJS, and Golang codebases.
• Experience in securing Digital Assets.
• Experience with event-driven architecture.
• Experience with public cloud providers. 

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to review all of our job postings to minimize biased language. Coinbase does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.

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