Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldb't do this without hiring the best people. We are 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 are 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 are a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.

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 tens of billions of dollars worth of digital assets and ensure that our customers and employees can enjoy a safe, trusted experience.

What you will be doing (ie. job duties):

At Coinbase, we believe that securely building onchain products is one of our key differentiators. Blockchain Security is essential to continuing to instill our customer's trust in Coinbase and the Crypto Economy.

Blockchain Security is an innovative security field, requiring new best practices to securely develop blockchain systems. Our work is varied and spans both onchain and offchain systems are from secure storage of and access to key management infrastructure offchain to providing safe infrastructure for developers and users to interact with dapps, tokens, and other onchain infrastructure.

What you will be doing:

Expand and formalize our Blockchain Security program to evolve towards continuous and ongoing risk assessment for our onchain products. Our goal is to detect and prevent security breaches through high quality assessments and successful remediation of security vulnerabilities.
Develop onchain security strategies and perform security assessments and threat modeling of various blockchain protocols, smart contracts
Lead from the front, be proactive and thorough, and identify top onchain security risks and develop strategies to deal with them
Provide expert technical guidance to the team in building new frameworks, analysis tools, and security products
From time to time, you may take on an novel engineering review project for yourself to keep your skills relevant
Lead the way in establishing best practices and engage with product and eng teams to get them adopted
Coach and mentor protocol security team members to build new skills and be crypto-forward
Guide Protocol Security to the cutting-edge of security technologies for blockchain protocols and help set standards for the rest of the industry to follow

What we're looking for in you:

You have extensive knowledge of onchain ecosystems, including the inner workings of L1 and L2 networks, tokens, DeFis protocols, and DAOs
At least 2 years experience in Blockchain Security with expertise in the latest onchain industry leading products
At least 5 years experience and solid foundation in information security
You have a demonstrable expertise in the security of at least one major blockchain protocol, preferably Ethereum
You have an energy and self-drive for continuous learning as Crypto is a constantly and rapidly changing space
You are passionate about mentoring and growing blockchain security engineers. Also, you have willingness to learn from your team
You excel in clear, direct, and kind communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
You have ability to develop relationships with security, product, and engineering teams
You balance long term strategic thinking with short term tactical planning
You excel in identifying machine-level, transaction-level, and business logic-level vulnerabilities in smart contracts and protocol infrastructure

Nice to haves:

You have experience in building onchain monitoring technology

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range:

$175,100—$206,000 USD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may viewPay Transparency,Employee RightsandKnow Your Rightsnotices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in theE-Verify programin certain locations, as required by law.

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