Senior Engineering Manager, Coinbase

Blockchain Security

$246.5-290k

+ Bonus & Equity

Expert level
Remote in US
Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

Job no longer available

Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Job no longer available

$246.5-290k

+ Bonus & Equity

Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

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

  • 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
  • At least 5 years of experience in security domains such as Application Security, Product Security, Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Security Engineering, etc
  • At least 10 years of experience in security
  • At least 5 years of engineering management experience
  • At least 5 years of people management experience and a preference for managing managers
  • You know what high quality systems look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
  • You have an energy and self-drive for continuous learning blockchain security is a constantly and rapidly changing space
  • You are passionate about developing the technical skill sets of security professionals
  • Ability to communicate with technical SMEs and non-technical stakeholders in order to drive alignment
  • Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning
  • You're passionate about Coinbase’s mission: increasing economic freedom in the world

Desirable

  • You have a blockchain expertise or professional experience
  • You have experience in building blockchain monitoring technology
  • You excel in identifying machine-level, transaction-level, and business logic-level vulnerabilities in smart contracts and novel blockchains
  • You have written/deployed security-specific tooling, such as static or dynamic analysis tools

What the job involves

  • Coinbase Blockchain Security is seeking an engineering leader to join our team to help us secure onchain, crypto-forward products within the ever evolving blockchain technology landscape
  • At Coinbase, we believe that securely developing and integrating products on blockchain technology is our differentiator
  • Blockchain Security is essential to continue to instill trust in the Crypto Economy
  • Blockchain Security is an evolving concept and we are designing new best practices to securely develop Crypto products
  • Blockchain Security is not limited to only onchain products, but also includes offchain security considerations around systems that integrate with blockchains
  • Secure storage of and access to the user's private keys is the primary focus for off-chain security, whereas on-chain security is about providing safe ways for users to interact with tokens, dApps, and more
  • Build and manage a focused blockchain security services/team and guide the development and operation of blockchain security tools, audit frameworks & processes
  • Work with the industry and ecosystem to help strengthen web3 security standards/frameworks and tooling
  • Expand and formalize our Blockchain Security capabilities to evolve towards proactive, continuous and ongoing risk assessment for our blockchain-based products. Detect and prevent the likelihood and impact of security breaches through high quality assessments and successful remediation of security vulnerabilities
  • Manage Product Security incidents specially blockchain security incidents with Product/Engineering teams and or ecosystem partners
  • 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, product managers and senior leadership 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
  • Manage relationships with multiple cross functional teams, negotiating requirements, resourcing, priorities, and roles across multiple teams and workstreams

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

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.

Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-24% employee growth in 12 months

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

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Founders

Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb

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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