Senior Analyst, Security Compliance; SOX IT

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.

Coinbase stores more digital currency than any company in the world, making us a top tier target on the internet. Security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale worldwide. Essential to scaling is building and running a security compliance program that reflects how we protect the data and assets in our care, to open the doors with customers, regulators, auditors, and other external stakeholders.

If you love working with fast moving companies to grow and scale security compliance engines and create positive change across the business, we’d like to speak with you about joining our team. Coinbase is looking for a Security Compliance Senior Analyst to drive the second line of defense IT SOX initiatives and help mature the IT SOX program.

• Lead Security and IT initiatives to support the SOX roadmap and advance program maturity
• Assist with SOX planning activities, including scoping of IT systems and creating training material to owners in preparation for SOX audit
• Lead security control gap assessments over SOX control environment, recommend remediation plans and track through completion
• Assess SOX implications of new products, update relevant controls, and communicate requirements to product organization and other stakeholders
• Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership on above responsibilities and communicate progress and escalations management
• Perform SOX audit and control impact analysis as a result of security and technology incidents and partner with owning teams on control uplift activities
• Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance to advise on SOX requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership
• Create and improve SOX procedural documentation, including process documentation, data flow diagrams, and uplifting templates
• Work closely with internal and external auditors to educate them about a complex technology control environment
• Oversee quality of audit initiatives, identify and analyze process gaps, provide guidance and expertise to team members
• Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex audit problems faced by the crypto industry
• Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive efficiency through AI and automation

• Minimum of 5+ years of security/IT compliance or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge and hands‑on experience in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting, SOX 404 frameworks, and testing to support compliance
• Prior experience at a big 4 accounting firm
• Experience leading compliance initiatives from start to finish
• Proven understanding and audit experience of cloud technologies, AWS preferred
• Ability to effectively and…