Founding Security Lead, CoinTracker
$210-270k
+ Equity
Crypto portfolio tracking & taxes
Job no longer available
Crypto portfolio tracking & taxes
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$210-270k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable everyone to use crypto with peace of mind.
Role
Who you are
- Impact: Demonstrated ability to drive business impact
- Mission alignment: Hungry and motivated about making progress towards our mission of Enabling everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind
- Trust: Say what you believe. Do what you say
- Communication: Able to clearly talk about the details and also zoom out to the bigger picture
- 10+ years of technical experience (Software Engineering, Security, or related), including 5+ years specifically in Security Engineering
- Security generalist with strong hands-on expertise in application security, complemented by experience in cloud security, IAM, and security operations
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud environments, Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform or similar)
- Familiarity with data protection and privacy frameworks (GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc)
- Experience setting up monitoring, detection, and incident response processes in a high-growth environment
- Ability to balance pragmatism and rigor: moving fast while ensuring strong security foundations
- Excellent communication skills to partner across engineering, product, and business teams
- U.S. citizen and U.S. resident
- (Bonus) Experience working in fintech or crypto domain
- (Bonus) Previous experience as the first or early security hire at a startup
What the job involves
- Define and build CoinTracker’s security foundation to meet the needs of our growing B2C, B2B, and B2B2C businesses
- Your one year outcomes
- Define and implement the security roadmap: Identify short-term wins and establish the long-term foundation to scale CoinTracker’s security posture
- Embed security into engineering workflows: Lead application security initiatives, including threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability management, and code scanning, and partner with engineering teams to proactively identify and mitigate application risks across our systems and architecture
- Build and operationalize security monitoring and response: Establish detection, monitoring, and alerting capabilities, establish ongoing vulnerability management, define and operationalize incident response processes, and lead security postmortems to continuously improve security practices
- Define and execute the security roadmap
- Lead the design and implementation of secure application and cloud practices, including code scanning, vulnerability management, and infrastructure hardening
- Define and implement data security and privacy controls, including encryption, secrets management, and regulatory compliance (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR)
- Establish monitoring, detection, alerting, and logging capabilities. Define and operationalize incident response playbooks, manage vulnerabilities, and lead postmortems to continuously improve processes
- Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security into the development lifecycle (threat modeling, security reviews, automation)
- Advocate for security best practices and foster a proactive security mindset across CoinTracker
Our take
Managing taxes for crypto investments can be a difficult task, and with tax regulations and trading practices developing fast in this market, a tool to help manage them is vital. CoinTracker’s crypto management software provides just this; tracking and synching up to 200 transactions across different wallets to a single dashboard, and automatically populating tax forms.
Though there are rivals in the space (such as Coinpanda and Koinly), CoinTracker stands out for the sheer volume of transactions it can track, as well as its prioritization of ease-of-use. Through this approach, it makes the whole process far more compliant and hassle-free for crypto traders, especially serving those who are less educated regarding the space.
By balancing tax management tools with its relatively generous free plan, CoinTracker has straddled itself neatly across low-volume retail investors and those dipping their toes in a little deeper. With fresh unicorn funding and regulatory pressure mounting around crypto tax reporting, the company is set to turn a historically painful obligation into a gateway for wider crypto adoption and help investors say compliant while better understanding the true performance of their portfolios.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
SERIES A
Apr 2018
$1.5m
SEED
Total funding: $101.7m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chandan Lodha
(Co-Founder)Previously a Product Manager at Google.
Jon Lerner
(Co-Founder & CEO)A former Software Engineer at Apple and Google. Went on to co-found and serve as CTO and Board Member at TextNow.
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