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# Senior Blockchain Security Engineer

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Systems, MongoDB, Blockchain, Software Engineering, NFT, Snowflake, Software Security, Backend, Blockchain Security, GPT, Databricks
- **Published:** June 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g68b5j

## About the Role

* 4+ years of experience in security engineering, with significant focus on blockchain, distributed systems, or cryptographic infrastructure security

 * Extensive experience in architecture and threat modeling of security-critical backend crypto systems

 * Expertise in Application Security and cryptography, including applied knowledge of cryptographic primitives used in blockchain protocols (signing schemes, hash functions, zero-knowledge proofs, MPC)

 * Familiar with all the fundamentals of onchain activity - blockchain explorers, funds tracing, bridging, DEXs, NFTs, smart contracts

 * Familiar with recent innovations such as restaking and the various EIPs currently being considered

 * Ability to provide leadership and mentorship to coworkers

 * Experience in a highly cross-functional role and/or leading a team

 * Excellence in clear, direct, and kind communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including the ability to translate complex security risks into actionable guidance for leadership

 * Experience with using AI/agentic tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, GPT Codex, etc.)

 * Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

*Nice to haves:*

 * Knowledge of security architecture of non-EVM based blockchains

 * Deep understanding of cryptography such as zk-SNARKs, FHE and MPC

 * Experience in at least one of: MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, Dune

## Description

* Identify gaps in our Crypto-Security infrastructure and drive cross-function efforts to address them

 * Perform security assessments, framework development, and threat modeling of assets, including various blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and other distributed ledger tech

 * Partner with software engineering teams to advise on code and architecture for internal smart contract development

 * Partner with internal tooling teams to drive the roadmap and vision for internal Coinbase blockchain security tools

 * Identify automation opportunities in our tooling and processes, deliver a Proof of Concept, and write detail technical requirements

 * Investigate impactful changes to the space, blockchain upgrades, and novel innovations such as zero-knowledge proofs and bleeding-edge blockchain protocols

 * Publish blogs and give talks (internal and external) on newfound vulnerabilities, incident investigations, unique integration risks, and related topics


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