Staff Security Engineer, Coinbase
Vulnerability Management
$211.7-249k
+ Target bonus + Target equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Be an early applicant
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$211.7-249k
+ Target bonus + Target equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience in vulnerability management, application security, or related information security domains
- At least 2 years of experience using SQL and/or Python to analyze vulnerability data and/or deliver operational metrics
- Strong understanding of security frameworks and risk management
- Experience with security tools and technologies for vulnerability assessment
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- You have landed impact through long-range strategic plans and influenced technical leads and executives
- An execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results
- Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role
Desirable
- You have designed and implemented a VM program with measurable risk reduction
- You have implemented security controls in developer platforms like GitHub Enterprise and Artifactory
- You have worked with Golang, Docker, Airflow, and AWS or GCP
What the job involves
- Coinbase Information Security is seeking a subject matter expert to lead the Vulnerability Management (VM) program. In this highly cross-functional role you will partner with stakeholders across Coinbase Engineering and Information Security to build and execute a strategic vision for vulnerability risk reduction.
- Your experience as a hands-on technologist and security practitioner will up-level VM controls and processes, resulting in continuous risk reduction and a delightful developer experience. You will represent the VM program at all levels, leading security analysts on remediation campaigns, setting requirements and driving tooling development, and using a data-driven approach to influence engineering leads and executives on program direction and priorities
- Develop and execute a strategic vision for Vulnerability Management (VM) that ensures the right balance of safety and agility
- Partner with development teams to design and implement security controls in vulnerability detection, prevention, and remediation
- Own metric and OKR development and be accountable for adherence to VM program procedure and risk reduction outcomes
- Brief and engage with engineering leaders in operational reviews and written updates
- Drive continuous improvement in the vulnerability management process
Our take
Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.
Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.
Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.
Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $633.4m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
- Vision and dental care
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development budget
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Clear Communication - Share information efficiently, improving collaboration and productivity. Practice active listening while. Being candid and kind
- Positive Energy - Be optimistic about the future and determined to get there. Co-create solutions and work together to get there
- Continuous Learning - We view every situation as an opportunity to learn, We value giving and receiving regular feedback
- Efficient Execution - We complete high quality work quickly by working smarter, not harder. We prefer automation over manual work
- Act like an owner: We take 100% responsibility for achieving the mission. We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job. We run through brick walls.
- Customer focus: We are deeply focused on solving our customers’ problems with technology, by enabling them to acquire, store and use crypto. We strive to be the easiest to use, most trusted and most secure platform. In every decision we make, we ask, “How does this create more value for our customers?”
- Repeatable innovation: We are builders, leveraging technology to improve the world, constantly shipping ideas vs just discussing them. We know that companies must continually reinvent themselves to avoid stagnation. We have a high tolerance for failure, investing 10% of our resources in venture bets that are uncomfortably ambitious
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
People progressing
Joined as a Compliance Analyst, promoted to Compliance Partnerships Senior Associate in 15 months. 2 promotions later, she is now a Financial Crimes & Compliance Manager.
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