Staff Blockchain Security Engineer

April 20

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Coinbase

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Digital Currency • Software • Payment Processing • Bitcoin • Technology

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

Description

• Expand and formalize our Blockchain Security program to evolve towards continuous and ongoing risk assessment for our onchain products. • Develop onchain security strategies and perform security assessments and threat modeling of various blockchain protocols. • Lead from the front, be proactive and thorough, and identify top onchain security risks and develop strategies to deal with them. • Provide expert technical guidance to the team in building new frameworks, analysis tools, and security products. • Lead the way in establishing best practices and engage with product and eng teams to get them adopted. • Coach and mentor Protocol Security team members to build new skills and be crypto-forward. • Guide Protocol Security to the cutting-edge of security technologies for blockchain protocols and help set standards for the rest of the industry to follow.

Requirements

• You have extensive knowledge of onchain ecosystems, including the inner workings of L1 and L2 networks, DeFi protocols, staking, etc. • You excel in identifying machine-level, transaction-level, and business logic-level vulnerabilities in smart contracts and protocol infrastructure. • You have 5+ years of smart contract auditing experience and have led the audit of several complex protocols. • You have an energy and self-drive for continuous learning as crypto is a constantly and rapidly changing space. • You are passionate about mentoring and growing blockchain security engineers, as well as willing to learn from your team. • You excel in clear, direct, and kind communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • You have experience building relationships with security, product, and engineering teams. • You balance long term strategic thinking with short term tactical planning.

Benefits

• target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))