Senior Security Compliance Analyst
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 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 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.
Location: Remote - USA
Coinbase stores more digital currency than any company in the world, making us a top tier target on the internet. Security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale worldwide. Essential to scaling is building and running a security compliance program that reflects how we protect the data and assets in our care, to open the doors with customers, regulators, auditors, and other external stakeholders. If you love working with fast moving companies to build security compliance engines from the ground up and create positive change across the business, we’d like to speak with you about joining our team.
Coinbase is looking for a security compliance senior analyst to help drive and implement the security compliance roadmap and collaborate with teams across the company to understand and meet our security requirements.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Work cross functionally with Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance to advise over security best practices and provide guidance on SOC 2, ICFR controls as well as financial services regulatory reporting requirements
- Lead gap assessment over PCI-DSS environment, track remediation efforts to completion, and facilitate audit with external auditors
- Conduct effectiveness testing over security owned controls, including IT general controls, identify and analyze process gaps, develop remediation recommendations, and track to completion
- Manage and mature company security exception program and collaborate with stakeholders to implement process improvements
- Work closely with internal and external auditors to educate them and achieve compliance over technology control environment
- Communicate progress, escalations, and issue resolution to management and team stakeholders
- Lead and monitor security awareness campaigns to educate the workforce over security best practices
- Collaborate with Legal and Security to update company security policies to reflect new global regulation and requirements
- Coordinate with Engineering partners to learn about services that support our digital asset transactions and document their processes
- Create procedural documentation, including training materials or process documentation
- Build relationships with a broad range of Coinbase employees at all levels to accomplish program objectives and further Coinbase Security GRC goals.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- Outstanding written and spoken communication skills
- Ability to effectively and autonomously accomplish outcomes across cross-functional teams in ambiguous situations with minimal supervision
- Prior experience working closely with auditors and/or external regulators
- Experience leading compliance initiatives from start to finish
- Proven understanding and audit experience of cloud technologies, AWS preferred
- Ability to multitask, prioritize work and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
- Focus on precision and accuracy, and the drive to clarify ambiguity
- Hands-on experience with auditing security frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI-DSS, SOX, or ISO27001
- 5+ years of security/IT compliance or equivalent experience
Nice to haves:
- BA or BS in a technical field or equivalent experience
- Prior experience at a big 4 accounting firm
- Security certifications e.g. CISA, CISSP, CISM or other relevant certifications
- Experience mapping common controls across multiple frameworks in a GRC tool
- Prior experience automating audit evidence collection