- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Work style
- Remote
- Area
- Security engineering
At a glance
The role in plain English
This Senior Security Engineer role at Coinbase focuses on securing corporate endpoints and infrastructure, particularly macOS, Chromebooks, and mobile devices. The position suits experienced security engineers who can design, implement, and maintain endpoint security solutions with minimal supervision. Day-to-day work involves collaborating with IT and engineering teams, conducting security reviews, and integrating security controls into enterprise systems. The role is remote within the USA, with occasional in-person sessions.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain security controls for endpoints and corporate infrastructure
- Conduct security reviews on enterprise systems and software
- Collaborate with IT and engineering teams on security initiatives
- Identify and close data exfiltration paths from AI agents and developer tools
- Provide technical guidance and code review to CorpSec engineers
What they're looking for
Essential
- 5+ years security engineering experience
- 2+ years securing macOS or similar endpoints
- Ability to write production code for infrastructure security
- Experience shipping security projects with minimal direction
- Familiarity with device trust or zero trust products
Core skills
- macOS security
- Endpoint security
- Production coding
- Zero trust
- Threat detection
- Compliance
- SaaS security
- Generative AI oversight
The shape of the job
Technical depth
4/5
Pace
4/5
Ownership
4/5
Teamwork
3/5
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- 01Describe your approach to securing macOS endpoints in an enterprise setting.
- 02How have you integrated zero trust principles into endpoint security?
- 03Explain how you would identify and mitigate data exfiltration risks from AI tools on user devices.
- 04Give an example of a security project you led from design to deployment.
About Coinbase
Coinbase provides digital currency exchange and related financial infrastructure. The company operates as a remote-first employer with periodic in-person sessions.
Full job descriptionAs published by Coinbase
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.
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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
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- 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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