Senior Security Engineer, Corporate Security

Coinbase, Inc.; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly in-person surges

Remote-first work culture

Equity and bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase CorpSec is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design and maintain security controls for corporate endpoints, devices, and enterprise apps. You will partner with IT and engineering to identify risks and ship tailored security solutions that protect data and assets without friction.

The role emphasizes security reviews, end-to-end project delivery, and collaboration across teams in a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security engineering experience.
• 2+ years securing macOS endpoints in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to write production code for security tooling.
• Experience shipping security projects end-to-end with minimal direction.
• Familiarity with device trust / zero trust security products.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security solutions for endpoints, focusing on secure configurations and user experience.
• Perform security reviews on enterprise systems and software enabling productivity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to integrate endpoint and SaaS security into broader initiatives.
• Identify and close data exfiltration paths from AI agents and developer tooling on endpoints.
• Provide guidance and code review support to engineers to raise the security bar.

Skills

Security engineering

macOS security

Production code

End-to-end security projects

Endpoint security products

Generative AI governance

Tools

Cloudflare

Prisma Access

Zscaler

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

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.

Position ID: (for referrals)

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*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$186,065—$218,900 USD

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