What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

📍Identify gaps in our security infrastructure and drive cross-function efforts to address them. 📍Perform security assessments, framework development, and threat modeling of assets, including various blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and other distributed ledger tech. 📍Partner with software engineering teams to advise on code and architecture for internal smart contract development. 📍Partner with internal tooling teams to drive the roadmap and vision for internal Coinbase blockchain security tools. 📍Identify automation opportunities in our tooling and processes, deliver a Proof of Concept, and write detail technical requirements. 📍Investigate impactful changes to the space, blockchain upgrades, and novel innovations such as zero-knowledge proofs and bleeding-edge blockchain protocols. 📍Publish blogs and give talks (internal and external) on newfound vulnerabilities, incident investigations, unique integration risks, and related topics.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

📍Strong understanding of blockchains (particularly EVM chains) and highly “crypto forward”. 📍Extensive experience in architecture and threat modeling of security-critical backend crypto systems. 📍Familiar with the threat model of a crypto custodian, including common vulnerabilities and pitfalls for systems that custody cryptocurrency. 📍Familiar with all the fundamentals of onchain activity – blockchain explorers, funds tracing, bridging, DEXs, NFTs, smart contracts. 📍Familiar with recent innovations such as restaking and the various EIPs currently being considered.