Senior Analyst, Technology and Security Risk
Listed on 2026-10-31
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IT/Tech
Information Security & Data Protection, Cybersecurity
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We're building the emerging onchain platform and with it, the future global financial system. Our work culture is intense and demanding—we seek individuals who are passionate about our mission and believe in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want people who relish the pressure of working with high caliber colleagues, actively seek feedback to keep leveling up, and run towards solving the company's hardest problems.
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.
The RoleCoinbase is looking for a creative and analytical Senior Analyst of Technology and Security Risk. You will serve as a member of the Coinbase Technology Risk & Controls team and support the implementation and maturity of our technology and security risk management program. Your risk team will define, quantify, manage, and communicate risks, and use outcomes to inform business decisions. You will serve as the subject matter expert in technology and security risk management operations, and will make these applicable and usable for fast-moving technical teams located across global time zones.
Responsibilities- Analysis of multiple variables, including but not limited to threat intelligence and risks, to inform threat models and risk scoring methodologies.
- Enable risk informed business outcomes:
Enable teams and leadership to make risk-based decisions by clearly communicating quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs. - Manage risks throughout the risk lifecycle:
Intake, triage, analyze, and calculate inherent and residual risk in collaboration with subject matter experts and risk owners. Facilitate agreement and documentation of risk treatment decisions; pressure test treatment decisions and validate execution of mitigation plans across stakeholders as required. Participate in continuous monitoring of risk treatment. - Reporting on risk posture:
Support synchronous and asynchronous reporting on findings, metrics, and recommend mitigations to business leadership. This includes ad hoc and scheduled meetings with leadership and business risk owners. - Maintain source of truth risk register:
Quality control of data, tooling support, and implementing automation and process improvements to establish a baseline and iteratively improve risk management data and tooling. - Communications and training:
Support develop, execution, and maintenance of communication and training plans to roll out the technology and security risk program across the organization. Maintain team runbooks, team intra-web pages, and risk register metrics dashboards. - Enterprise risk alignment:
Work in lockstep with Enterprise Risk Management to escal ...? - Global Engagement:
Collaborate with stakeholders to help scale the program's risk framework across Coinbase entities, products, and geographies and markets. Regularly collaborate with GRC teams, Legal and Compliance for risks, assessments, and reporting to meet regulatory requirements. - Support audit and regulatory inspections:
Support data compilation to respond to US and international audit and regulator inquiries. - Maintain an industry pulse:
Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks. - Execute risk assessments:
Execute technology and security risk assessments across production and corporate environments, enabling the team to communicate risk in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
- 5+ years of…
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