Senior Security Engineer, Corporate Security
What security roles in crypto pay
68 salaries · our own dataThis role pays $186k-$219k, below the $209k median for security roles in crypto on this board.
As a Senior Security Engineer in Coinbase Corporate Security, you'll build and maintain security controls that protect corporate infrastructure, user devices, enterprise applications, and network communications. You'll partner closely with IT and engineering teams to identify risks and ship tailored solutions that keep users secure without introducing unnecessary friction, directly protecting Coinbase's most sensitive data and critical assets.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and maintain security solutions to harden Coinbase's macOS, Chromebook, and mobile endpoints, focusing on secure configurations, compliance, threat detection, and user experience.
- Perform security reviews on enterprise systems and software that enable user productivity across the corporate environment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to integrate endpoint and SaaS security into broader corporate engineering initiatives.
- Identify and close data exfiltration paths introduced by local AI agents and developer tooling such as coding assistants and LLM harnesses running on corporate endpoints.
- Provide technical guidance and code review support to engineers on the CorpSec team, raising the security bar across the organization.
What you bring
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 2 years securing macOS or similar user endpoints in an enterprise environment.
- Proven ability to write production code such as services, integrations, and automations that support corporate infrastructure security.
- Experience scoping, prioritizing, and shipping security projects end-to-end with minimal direction in fast-moving environments.
- Familiarity with device trust, zero trust network access, or endpoint communication security products such as Cloudflare, Prisma Access, or Zscaler.
- The ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
What we offer
- Annual base salary of $186,065-$218,900 USD (varies by location), plus equity and bonus eligibility
- Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
- Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions
About Coinbase
Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates as a remote-first organization with intense collaboration and high performance standards.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Coinbase has 177 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 53 in Engineering, 25 in Legal & Compliance and 21 in Finance. 86% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and Canada. 30 were posted in the last 7 days. The median advertised base salary is $202k, from 108 listings that publish pay.
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