Senior Security Engineer, Corporate Security
- Your meticulous attention to detail ensures that endpoint configurations are thoroughly hardened and compliant, matching the role's security focus.
- You are reliable and consistent at maintaining security controls, which is crucial for monitoring and protecting corporate infrastructure.
- Your methodical approach works well for scoping and shipping projects with clear steps, even in a fast-moving environment.
- You may be resistant to adapting to new technologies like AI agents quickly, which is important for addressing emerging data exfiltration risks.
- Your preference for clear instructions could clash with the need to work with minimal direction, as the role expects independence.
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Coinbase Corporate Security (CorpSec) is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to 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 (e.g., coding assistants, 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.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 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 (services, integrations, automations) that supports 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 (e.g., Cloudflare, Prisma Access, Zscaler).
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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