Data Protection Engineer

Coinbase Global, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote - USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Build and maintain data loss prevention (DLP) controls and tooling across multiple OS environments including iOS and Chrome, implementing and tuning prevention capabilities to protect against sophisticated data security incidents within decentralized datasets.
• Drive automation in DLP engineering and operations by leveraging LLMs and agentic AI to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and scale data protection coverage across the Coinbase ecosystem.
• Partner cross-functionally with endpoint security, IT, engineering, product, compliance, and privacy teams to deploy data protection technologies, ensure timely remediation of risks, and support enterprise-wide data protection initiatives.
• Execute monitoring and metrics reporting by producing quantitative and qualitative measures of programmatic impact, control effectiveness, and emerging threats to inform Data Protection leadership on progress and challenges.
• Support the long-term data protection strategy by collaborating with risk teams to measure control effectiveness, adapt to evolving global regulations, and harden Coinbase’s security posture against emerging data threats.
• Implement scalable, automated security processes using ML/AI tooling to maximize operational efficiency in DLP engineering and operations, ensuring alignment with business speed and security requirements.
• Apply responsible use of generative AI in security workflows, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs that improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
• Maintain deep understanding of the insider threat landscape and the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations surrounding sensitive data handling in a global enterprise environment.
• Communicate findings clearly through leadership briefs and assessments, translating technical data protection outcomes into actionable business insights.
• Test, tune, and deploy enterprise DLP solutions across heterogeneous environments, ensuring consistent protection of sensitive data while enabling operational agility.
• Stay current with global data protection laws and regulations to ensure Coinbase’s compliance posture remains robust and adaptive to regulatory changes.
• Operate within a remote-first culture with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" to collaborate intensively with cross-functional teams.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of security engineering experience with direct, hands-on implementation of enterprise DLP programs, including testing, tuning, and deploying data prevention controls across multiple OS environments and decentralized datasets.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating insider threat and data protection technologies (SIEM, UBA, DLP, endpoint detection), with an understanding of the investigation and intelligence lifecycle.
• Proficiency in creating scalable, automated security processes, with practical experience leveraging ML/AI tooling to maximize operational efficiency across DLP engineering and operations.
• Working knowledge of the insider threat landscape and the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of handling sensitive data across a global enterprise, with the ability to communicate findings clearly through briefs and assessments for leadership.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary range of $144,500–$170,000 USD (excluding equity and bonus)
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) plan

Skills & Technologies

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About Coinbase Global, Inc.

Coinbase Global, Inc. operates a cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset platform enabling users to buy, sell, transfer and store cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and others. Founded in 2012, the company provides retail brokerage, custody, payment processing, and institutional trading services across more than 100 countries. It also offers a non-custodial wallet, blockchain infrastructure products and developer tools. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker COIN.

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