coinbase
Blockchain Security Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Work Regime
- remote
- Employment
- employment_required
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Department
- Security & Privacy
- Posted
- 2026-03-10T17:23:02-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Medical
Requirements
Strong understanding of blockchains (particularly EVM chains) and highly “crypto forward”
Expertise in blockchain technology and foundational knowledge in security principles
2+ years of threat modeling/design review experience
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical security requirements and risks into terms that anyone can understand.
High ownership and drive, including the ability to work independently and unblock yourself.
Experience with using AI/agentic tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, GPT Codex, etc.)
Responsibilities
Perform design reviews, threat modeling and code reviews of upcoming features and products.
Identify top product risk areas and lead risk-reduction initiatives with cross-functional teams.
Improve and/or automate existing processes to increase efficiency, utilizing agentic/AI tooling.
Create monitoring solutions to ensure identified risks remain at acceptable levels for Coinbase.
Participate in the team on-call rotation to support engineering teams through timely design consultations, vulnerability analysis, bug fix verification, etc.
Publish blogs and give talks (internal and external) on newfound vulnerabilities, incident investigations, unique integration risks, and related topics