Software Engineer, Developer Security

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

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.

The Developer Security team secures Coinbase's software supply chain and builds automation to find and fix vulnerabilities at scale. We own artifact scanning, dependency analysis, vulnerability management, and security agents that automate remediation across the company. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will build and ship features across these systems. You will work with engineers across Coinbase to make security a natural part of how they build software.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Build and maintain services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
• Deliver features and small-to-medium projects end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Author technical design documents and break down complex features into individual tasks.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Improve code quality and address technical debt within your ownership area.
• Participate in on-call rotations, code reviews, and incident response.
• Work with engineers, product managers, and security partners to deliver on the team's roadmap.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• At least 2 years of experience in software engineering.
• You have built, deployed, and maintained production services and understand service-oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code.
• You can author technical design documents and break down features into discrete tasks.
• You actively use modern tooling (including AI-assisted development) to ship faster and learn new domains quickly.
• You are passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with security tooling or security-adjacent engineering (e.g., SLSA, Sigstore, artifact scanning, SBOM).
• Familiarity with Artifactory, Xray, or similar supply chain security platforms.
• Experience with Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, MongoDB, gRPC.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• You have worked at a company during a period of rapid growth.

Job #: 75879

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$152,405—$179,300 USD

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.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

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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