Job Title
Blockchain Security Engineer at Coinbase
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About Us
Coinbase is a digital currency exchange and wallet service that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world.
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Blockchain Security Engineer to join our team. As a member of our Block Sec team, you will be responsible for securing funds and data from protocols to wallets. You will work closely with product teams to ensure that our users can safely and confidently engage with the onchain world.
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Responsibilities
1. Identify gaps in our security infrastructure and drive cross-function efforts to address them.
2. Perform security assessments, framework development, and threat modeling of assets, including various blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and other distributed ledger tech.
3. Partner with software engineering teams to advise on code and architecture for internal smart contract development.
4. Partner with internal tooling teams to drive the roadmap and vision for internal Coinbase blockchain security tools.
5. Investigate impactful changes to the space, blockchain upgrades, and novel innovations such as zero-knowledge proofs and bleeding-edge blockchain protocols.
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Requirements
1. Strong understanding of blockchains (particularly EVM chains) and highly