Data Protection Engineer

About Coinbase

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We're building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

Our culture is intense and demanding. We seek people passionate about our mission who believe in the power of crypto and blockchain technology, who relish working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seek feedback to keep leveling up.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, 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.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Data Protection Engineer (L4) to help implement and maintain our data protection capabilities, ensuring the Coinbase ecosystem remains resilient against security threats. You will contribute to our data protection strategy, helping to balance strong security controls with the speed of a decentralized tech environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and expand data loss prevention capabilities to protect Coinbase ecosystem from sophisticated data security incidents
• Support execution of the long-term strategy for the Data Prevention program to harden security posture against data security threats
• Implement and maintain complex designs and controls across a decentralized tech environment to promote security without impeding business speed
• Implement and deploy Data Protection tools and technologies in concert with cross-functional teams including endpoint security and information technology
• Demonstrate operational efficiency across a wide array of DLP Engineering and Operations, leveraging LLMs and agentic AI
• Bring an automation-first mindset to champion and drive a more streamlined and scalable approach towards DLP operations
• Produce quantitative and qualitative metrics to apprise Data Protection Leadership of progress