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At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.
To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.
Coinbase stores more digital currency than any company in the world, making us a top tier target on the internet. Security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale worldwide. Essential to scaling is building and running a security compliance program that reflects how we protect the data and assets in our care, to open the doors with customers, regulators, auditors, and other external stakeholders. If you love working with fast moving companies to expand our compliance advisory program and create positive change across the business, we’d like to speak with you about joining our team. Coinbase is looking for a Security Compliance Manager to drive second line of defense technology compliance initiatives across our crypto derivatives services and drive risk reduction through ‘controls by design’ and ongoing monitoring.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Control Assessment: Lead technical deep dive control assessments into crypto derivatives products, services and supporting systems (including perpetual swaps, futures, and options) to assess risk and control design, identify areas of weakness and control failures, and recommend risk reduction initiatives within a high-frequency, low-latency trading environment
- SOX Compliance: Assess SOX, SOC 2 and ISO27001 implications of crypto derivatives services and assess their compliance posture against those frameworks and certifications
- Compliance Advisory: Translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable engineering and business requirements, ensuring systems for collateral management, market data, and trade settlement are demonstrably compliant
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, Engineering, and Product to advise on technology and security requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership
- Incident Evaluation: Lead incident impact analysis procedures for Consumer products and services
- Metrics and Reporting: Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership on above responsibilities and communicate progress and escalations management
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution
- Documentation and Training: Develop and maintain comprehensive control and testing requirement documentation and deliver training to owners over control implementation, maintenance and remediation plans
- Risk Mitigation: Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex regulatory problems faced by the crypto industry
- Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- 6+ years of experience working in a technical controls or GRC engineering function, or equivalent experience
- Control domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, SOX, SOC, COBIT
- Strong technical acumen: Ability to analyze and map complex, crypto-native technical processes to traditional control objectives (e.g., mapping on-chain collateral movements to SOX controls for financial reporting integrity).
- Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time. You are comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity.
- Clear/concise communicator and writer: Experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholder audiences. Ability to translate controls/risk standards out of compliance speak and into functional requirements and across varying levels of technical stakeholders.
- Regulatory familiarity: Understanding of financial derivatives is essential. Must have a strong grasp of products like futures, options, and perpetuals, as well as core exchange functions such as order matching, risk engines, margining, and clearing.
- Drive for continuous learning: You are willing to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Coinbase. You have a willingness to embrace a steep learning curve and stretch opportunities to learn new skills.
- Excellent organization and project management skills: Able to perform effectively in a fast-moving and demanding environment
- Clear cross-functional communication: Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on shared outcomes
Nice to haves:
- FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer-facing disciplines.
- Strong knowledge of risk/control issues in relation to evolving technology (e.g., crypto,cloud, data lakes, machine learning).
- Certification is a plus, but not a requirement: information security risk management qualifications like CISA, CISSP, CISM
- Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3
BA or BS in a technical field or equivalent experience
- Experience working with MiFiD requirements
Position ID: P72517
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Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
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AI Disclosure
For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com
