Engineering Manager, Coinbase
Developer Security
$211.7-249k
+ Bonus + Equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Open for applications
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$211.7-249k
+ Bonus + 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 7 years of experience in software engineering
- At least 2 years of experience in security engineering, security architecture, or application security
- At least 2 years of engineering management experience
- You possess a strong understanding of what constitutes high-quality code and effective software engineering processes, creating an environment that fosters these principles
- An execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results
- An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning
- Experience in creating, delivering, and operating distributed systems at scale
- You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs
- Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role
Desirable
- You have designed, built, scaled and maintained production services and integrations for vulnerability risk reduction, including scanners, issue management platforms, and/or secure CI/CD infrastructure
- You have worked with Golang, Docker, and AWS or GCP
What the job involves
- Coinbase Infrastructure Security is seeking a leader to build systems and integrations that support the prevention, identification, tracking, reporting, and remediation of vulnerabilities
- As the engineering manager of Vulnerability Management (VM), you will lead a team of software engineers who partner with program owners, technical subject matter experts, and cross-functional partners to deliver services and security controls that ensure the safety of Coinbase software and infrastructure
- We deliver a delightful experience to Coinbase developers by prioritizing safe defaults, automated detection and remediation, and highly relevant and contextual findings
- Your impact is quantified through measurable risk reduction that minimizes unnecessary friction and toil
- Build and operate services and system integrations that scan, track, and report vulnerabilities to Coinbase developers
- Partner with engineering leaders on cross-functional initiatives to improve the safety of Coinbase infrastructure and development platforms
- Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and chart a fulfilling career path. Set clear targets and objectives, and establish KPIs for the team
- Collaborate with engineers, managers, and program managers to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural and operational decisions
- Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Coinbase culture and product
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 Specialist
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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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