Engineering Manager, Coinbase
Security Engineering
$211.7-249k
Salary is dependent on work location. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
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The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$211.7-249k
Salary is dependent on work location. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of hands-on development experience with developing and architecting large-scale, distributed, high-traffic platforms and implementing scalable, robust services and applications in the real world
- 4+ years of people management experience leading a team of 5 or more full time employees
- Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders across various teams within a large organization
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong agile mindset, able to orchestrate technical resources in a resource challenged environment
- You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
- Passionate about high-quality code and effective software engineering processes, landing changes to improve them
- You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs
- An execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results
Desirable
- Prior experience in building capabilities for security use cases, leading security engineering teams
- Proven experience landing large initiatives, making an impact across the company that changed the status quo
- You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
What the job involves
- Coinbase stores a large amount of digital currency 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
- Security Platform Engineering ( SPE ) team is building platform capabilities for a variety of security use cases critical for security, compliance and privacy at Coinbase
- Some of the key functional areas we are developing capabilities for are secrets and key management, identity access and management, onchain security, policy and risk management, vulnerabilities management enabling our product, compliance, security and services teams to protect Coinbase and our customers
- Build and manage engineering teams, to guide the development of security platform capabilities
- Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
- Manage individual projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical and strategic leadership
- Implement multi-year strategy for security platform engineering functions with the technical leadership on your team
- Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Contribute to owning and delivering processes to drive engineering quality, excellence and meet our engineering SLAs
- Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Coinbase culture and product
- Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions
Our take
Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.
Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.
Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.
Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $633.4m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
- Vision and dental care
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development budget
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Clear Communication - Share information efficiently, improving collaboration and productivity. Practice active listening while. Being candid and kind
- Positive Energy - Be optimistic about the future and determined to get there. Co-create solutions and work together to get there
- Continuous Learning - We view every situation as an opportunity to learn, We value giving and receiving regular feedback
- Efficient Execution - We complete high quality work quickly by working smarter, not harder. We prefer automation over manual work
- Act like an owner: We take 100% responsibility for achieving the mission. We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job. We run through brick walls.
- Customer focus: We are deeply focused on solving our customers’ problems with technology, by enabling them to acquire, store and use crypto. We strive to be the easiest to use, most trusted and most secure platform. In every decision we make, we ask, “How does this create more value for our customers?”
- Repeatable innovation: We are builders, leveraging technology to improve the world, constantly shipping ideas vs just discussing them. We know that companies must continually reinvent themselves to avoid stagnation. We have a high tolerance for failure, investing 10% of our resources in venture bets that are uncomfortably ambitious
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
People progressing
Joined as a Compliance Analyst, promoted to Compliance Partnerships Senior Associate in 15 months. 2 promotions later, she is now a Financial Crimes & Compliance Manager.
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