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Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer

RemoteRemoteFull Time$144,500–$170,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Vertex Synapse
  • Python
  • Go
  • Storm
  • CI/CD
  • indicators
  • intelligence data
  • cron monitoring
  • data hygiene
  • Generative AI

Nice to have

  • security operations
  • crypto ecosystem
  • detections
  • blocklists
  • data warehouses
  • agent workflows

Role summary

Coinbase is seeking a Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer to manage and operate the Vertex Synapse platform, crucial for transforming adversary intelligence into actionable security measures. This role involves maintaining platform health, integrating and modeling new intelligence sources, and deploying automations to embed threat intelligence across security operations. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate intelligence requirements into technical solutions, prototype features, and leverage generative AI responsibly. Requires 2+ years of experience in building and operating threat intelligence platforms or security data pipelines, with proficiency in Python, Go, or Storm, and experience with CI/CD, data modeling, and system operations.

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

As a Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer on the Threat Intelligence team within Security Operations, you'll own Vertex Synapse in production - the platform that turns adversary intelligence into detections, blocks, and decisions across Coinbase. The TI team protects billions of dollars in digital assets by collecting, modeling, and operationalizing intelligence on the most sophisticated cyber threats targeting the crypto ecosystem. You'll keep the platform healthy, ingest and model new intelligence sources, and ship the automations that weave threat intelligence into the fabric of security operations at Coinbase.

What you'll do:

  • Own the production Vertex Synapse instance, including platform health, backend operations, cron monitoring, and data hygiene
  • Build and maintain intelligence feed integrations, enrichments, and tagging so new sources land modeled and usable by stakeholders
  • Ship intelligence into downstream controls and data pipelines, including detections, blocklists, data warehouses, and agent workflows
  • Partner across Security and Product to translate intelligence requirements into production capabilities
  • Rapidly prototype and implement features, fixes, and tooling as required by the team's Intelligence Analysts and stakeholders
  • Required Skills and Experience:

  • 2+ years building and operating threat intelligence platforms or security data pipelines in production environments
  • Software development experience in Python, Go, and/or Storm, including deploying production-quality code with CI/CD ownership after ship
  • Experience ingesting, modeling, tagging, and lifecycle-managing indicators and related intelligence data at scale
  • Track record of troubleshooting and restoring production systems and data quality issues, then driving root-cause fixes to prevent recurrence
  • Experience translating cross-functional stakeholder needs into technical solutions within a security operations context
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
  • Position ID: P78174

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    Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

    Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):$144,500—$170,000 USD
  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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