Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer

At Coinbase, 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 Web3 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.

The Team + Opportunity

We’re Coinbase Cloud. Coinbase is the world’s most trusted way to join the crypto revolution, serving more than 89 million accounts in more than 100 countries. At Coinbase Cloud you will help build the future of web3. Whether it’s crypto payment or trading APIs, data access, or staking infrastructure, Coinbase Cloud has it all. 

Web3 is the future of crypto and Coinbase Cloud is at the center of Web3. The high level goal of the Coinbase Cloud Security team is to ensure that our customers can trust and securely consume the Coinbase Cloud products and services. As a member of the Coinbase Cloud Security team you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the way Security scales its programs across Coinbase Cloud. You will join a premier team with one overarching goal: to secure the Coinbase Cloud platform.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Help Coinbase Cloud engineers develop secure systems by advising on secure patterns and practices
• Proactively introduce new controls into the Coinbase Cloud infrastructure platform that enhance our defense in depth
• Incorporate new secure design patterns into the infrastructure platform that expand what our engineers can do safely
• Perform security reviews for developer based APIs that will be launched externally
• You’ll be protecting our staking services platform, protecting billions in customer funds

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• Leveling depends on years of experience and performance in interviews
• You exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution
• You have strong threat modeling skills (5+ years of experience) to enable you to understand systems and what can go wrong
• You have experience with cloud-native architectures

Nice to haves:

• You enjoy wrangling complex problems and datasets - we often deal with messy or voluminous datasets such as configuration across our fleet or terabytes of logs, so interest in modern data management tools that help us find signal in the noise will be beneficial
• Interest in blockchain, cryptography or privacy engineering - we use these across our organization to protect our users, and bringing standardization and integration into our platform will help meet our mission of helping engineers focus on building products. We have cryptographic engineers that build and validate primitives, but knowing how and where to