This role involves frontline incident response and security alert triage for Coinbase's digital assets and Web3 products. Responsibilities include building detection and automation capabilities, developing monitoring strategies, and partnering across teams to ensure platform safety. The position requires 3+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, and automation scripting.
As a Security Operations Specialist on the Security Operations team, you'll defend Coinbase and its customers against some of the most sophisticated attackers in the world. This team - spanning CDRE, Insider Threat, Blockops and Threat Intelligence - protects billions of dollars in digital assets while scaling security coverage for the next billion crypto users. You'll own frontline incident response, build detection and automation capabilities, and partner across the organization to keep Coinbase safe as it launches new Web3 products globally.
What you'll do:
- Own second-line triage and response for security alerts, leading incident management through resolution and driving post-incident improvements
- Build and maintain runbooks for repeatable response patterns, then define and implement automation to eliminate manual toil
- Partner with teams across Security Operations to develop monitoring strategies informed by attacker investigation findings
- Drive Security monitoring and incident response for emerging Web3 product launches
- Strengthen team capabilities by mentoring peers, sharing knowledge, and participating in 24/7 rotational coverage across time zones
Required Skills and Experience:
- 3+ years of hands-on security operations experience including incident response, alert triage, and network/host forensics across cloud, SaaS, and container environments
- Demonstrated ability to identify detection gaps and build coverage across diverse log sources (cloud platforms, SaaS applications, container orchestration, M&A integrations)
- Proficiency scripting automation workflows that reduce manual investigation and response time (Python, Bash, or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) sufficient to analyze host and network-level artifacts
- Experience working with SIEM platforms and threat intelligence tooling at scale, including tuning alerts and improving signal-to-noise ratios
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P77687
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