Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer to own Vertex Synapse in production, ensuring platform health, data quality, and scalable intelligence processing. You will contribute to integrations, tagging, and downstream data flows that power detections and decision-making across the security operations stack.

This role requires hands-on development experience in Python, Go, or Storm, with CI/CD ownership, and a proven ability to translate security needs into platform

Qualifications

• 2+ years building threat intel platforms in production.
• Python, Go, or Storm with production-grade code deployment.
• Experience ingesting, modeling, tagging, and lifecycle-managing indicators at scale.
• Troubleshooting production systems and driving root-cause fixes.
• Translating stakeholder needs into security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own the production Vertex Synapse instance, including platform health and data hygiene.
• Build and maintain intelligence feed integrations and tagging for sourced data.
• Ship intelligence into downstream controls and data pipelines (detections, blocklists, data warehouses).
• Collaborate with Security and Product to translate intel requirements into production capabilities.
• Prototype and implement features and tooling per Analysts' needs.

Skills

Threat intel platforms

Python

Go

Storm

CI/CD ownership

Data modeling

Security operations

AI governance

Tools

Vertex Synapse

CI/CD pipelines

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.

As a Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer on the Threat Intelligence team within Security Operations, you'll own Vertex Synapse in production - the platform that turns adversary intelligence into detections, blocks, and decisions across Coinbase. The TI team protects billions of dollars in digital assets by collecting, modeling, and operationalizing intelligence on the most sophisticated cyber threats targeting the crypto ecosystem. You'll keep the platform healthy, ingest and model new intelligence sources, and ship the automations that weave threat intelligence into the fabric of security operations at Coinbase.

What you’ll do

• Own the production Vertex Synapse instance, including platform health, backend operations, cron monitoring, and data hygiene
• Build and maintain intelligence feed integrations, enrichments, and tagging so new sources land modeled and usable by stakeholders
• Ship intelligence into downstream controls and data pipelines, including detections, blocklists, data warehouses, and agent workflows
• Partner across Security and Product to translate intelligence requirements into production capabilities
• Rapidly prototype and implement features, fixes, and tooling as required by the team's Intelligence Analysts and stakeholders

Required Skills and Experience

• 2+ years building and operating threat intelligence platforms or security data pipelines in production environments
• Software development experience in Python, Go, and/or Storm, including deploying production-quality code with CI/CD ownership after ship
• Experience ingesting, modeling, tagging, and lifecycle-managing indicators and related intelligence data at scale
• Track record of troubleshooting and restoring production systems and data quality issues, then driving root-cause fixes to prevent recurrence
• Experience translating cross-functional stakeholder needs into technical solutions within a security operations context
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Position ID: P78174

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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): $144,500 - $170,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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