Security Compliance Senior Analyst

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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.

Coinbase is looking for a Security Compliance Manager to drive second line of defense technology compliance initiatives across our crypto derivatives services and drive risk reduction through ‘controls by design’ and ongoing monitoring.

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

• Control Assessment: Lead technical deep dive control assessments into crypto derivatives products, services and supporting systems (including perpetual swaps, futures, and options) to assess risk and control design, identify areas of weakness and control failures, and recommend risk reduction initiatives within a high-frequency, low-latency trading environment
• SOX Compliance: Assess SOX, SOC 2 and ISO
  27001 implications of crypto derivatives services and assess their compliance posture against those frameworks and certifications
• Compliance Advisory: Translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable engineering and business requirements, ensuring systems for collateral management, market data, and trade settlement are demonstrably compliant
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, Engineering, and Product to advise on technology and security requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership
• Incident Evaluation: Lead incident impact analysis procedures for Consumer products and services
• Metrics and Reporting: Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership on above responsibilities and communicate progress and escalations management
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution
• Documentation and Training: Develop and maintain comprehensive control and testing requirement documentation and deliver training to owners over control implementation, maintenance and remediation plans
• Risk Mitigation: Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex regulatory problems faced by the crypto industry
• Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks

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

• 6+ years of experience working in a technical controls or GRC engineering function, or equivalent experience
• Control domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, SOX, SOC, COBIT
• Strong technical acumen: Ability to analyze and map complex, crypto-native technical processes to traditional control objectives (e.g., mapping on-chain collateral movements to SOX controls for financial reporting integrity).
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time. You are comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity.
• Clear/concise communicator and writer: Experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholder audiences. Ability to translate controls/risk standards out of compliance speak and into functional requirements and across varying levels of technical stakeholders.
• Regulatory familiarity: Understanding of financial derivatives is essential. Must have a strong grasp of products like futures, options, and perpetuals, as well as core exchange functions such as order matching, risk engines, margining, and clearing.
• Drive for continuous learning: You are willing to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges  have a willingness to embrace a steep learning curve and stretch opportunities to learn new skills.
• Excellent organization and project management skills: Able to perform effectively in a fast-moving and…