Senior Blockchain Security Engineer
Senior Blockchain Security Engineer
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Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.
Baseis planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.
We believe that the onchain platform is the most important builder platform since the internet (online).
We believe that the onchain platform should be open source free to use and globally available. And we believe that in order to make it really work we need all hands on deck working together to scale in a secure decentralized easy-to-use way.
At Base we live by ourStay Basedvalues: we do the right thing work hard stay optimistic prioritize the team and push creative boundariesall while building the future of onchain. We value aZone 3 work ethic where our team rises to the challenge embraces hard weeks and makes small to significant personal tradeoffs when necessary to drive impact and innovation.
The Protocol Security team ensures the security of all onchain development at Coinbase. We partner closely with product teams to make sure that our users can safely and confidently engage with the onchain world.
What youll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Develop onchain security strategies and perform security assessments and threat modeling of various blockchain protocols.
- Lead from the front be proactive and thorough and identify top onchain security risks and develop strategies to deal with them.
- Provide expert technical guidance to the team in building new frameworks analysis tools and security products.
- Lead the way in establishing best practices and engage with product and eng teams to get them adopted.
- Coach and mentor Protocol Security team members to build new skills and be crypto-forward.
- Guide Protocol Security to the cutting-edge of security technologies for blockchain protocols and help set standards for the rest of the industry to follow.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- You have extensive knowledge of onchain ecosystems including the inner workings of L1 and L2 networks DeFi protocols staking etc.
- You excel in identifying machine-level transaction-level and business logic-level vulnerabilities in smart contracts and protocol infrastructure.
- You have 3 years of smart contract auditing experience and have led the audit of several complex protocols.
- You have an energy and self-drive for continuous learning as crypto is a constantly and rapidly changing space.
- You are passionate about mentoring and growing blockchain security engineers as well as willing to learn from your team.
- You excel in clear direct and kind communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You have experience building relationships with security product and engineering teams.
- You balance long term strategic thinking with short term tactical planning.
Job ID: P61656
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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 Coinbases 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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
