Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Security is a primary competency at Coinbase, and the Security Operations 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 billions of dollars worth of digital assets and ensure that our customers and employees can enjoy a safe, trusted experience. As Coinbase scales globally, our team is scaling along with it, using a blend of tooling, automation, and strategic team growth to ensure that we’re well-equipped to protect the next billion users of crypto.

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

The Security Operations group is a multi-functional organization that includes our CSIRT, Trust & Safety, Threat Intelligence, and Insider Threat. While no two days will end up looking the same, generally-speaking you’ll be responsible for the following things:

Building and implementing detections, preventions, security controls, and automations to not only deter insider threats but improve holistic security posture

Testing and maintaining security tooling, particularly for endpoint detection and investigation

Collaborating cross-functionally with Security, Infrastructure, IT, and Legal to obtain necessary technical information and to evaluate and advise them of downstream impacts of their builds/deployments

Linking disparate information such that it can be aggregated, visualized, and interpreted for indications of threat (via query builds, table joins, etc.)

Assisting with investigations as needed (this may involve rapidly building tools or extending capabilities to aid response efforts).

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

You’ll be much more likely to be successful in this role if these bullet points seem like a good description of you:

You have experience designing and implementing Insider Threat technologies (such as Security Information Event Management - SIEM, User Behavioral Analytics - UEBA, Data Loss Prevention - DLP) and an understanding of investigations and/or the intelligence cycle

You are comfortable manipulating logs, tables, and data lakes to engineer custom detections and dashboards

You’ve mastered SQL and coding languages like Python and regularly manipulate logs to create custom alerts and automations with SOAR

You are comfortable working cross-functionally with infrastructure, IT, and response teams to design and implement technical controls

You are actively aware of the insider threat landscape, and understand the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of working with sensitive information and situations

You are discreet, thoughtful, and seek to coordinate systemic, cross functional solutions to mitigate risk

You are adept at translating complex problems into ‘byte-sized’, readily implemented (and preferably automated) solutions

You have excellent verbal and written communicati

Senior Detection Engineer, Insider Threat

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