Senior Data Protection Engineer

Coinbase is a company on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Senior Data Protection Engineer to lead and expand their data protection capabilities. The role involves executing a long-term strategy for data prevention, enhancing security posture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and expand data loss prevention capabilities to protect Coinbase ecosystem from sophisticated data security incidents
• Execute the long term strategy for the Data prevention program to harden security posture against data security threats
• Evaluate and direct complex designs/controls across a decentralized tech environment to promote security without impeding the speed of business
• Implement and deploy DLP tools and technologies in concert with cross functional teams (ie. endpoint security, information technology, and others)
• Enhance operational efficiency across a wide array of DLP Engineering & 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 programmatic impact and challenges
• Collaborate across Security and Privacy Teams and lead cross functional data protection initiatives
• You’ll lead a culture of excellence by mentoring peers and share knowledge
• You’ll collaborate with cross functional teams like engineering, product development, compliance to ensure timely remediation
• Work in concert with risk teams to measure control effectiveness and address changes in laws/regulations globally

Requirements:

• You are an experienced security engineering the data protection space who can deliver measurable results
• You have the technical acumen to solve operational issues with an engineering solution
• You have direct experience testing, tuning, and implementing data loss prevention controls across multiple OS stack
• You are comfortable manipulating and orchestrating controls to address multiple operating systems (iOS / Chrome) and decentralized datasets
• You are adept at creating scalable processes, automating where possible, and leveraging ML/AI where feasible to maximize efficiency
• You can be trusted to be discreet and thoughtful while working cross functionally to mitigate risk
• You are actively aware of the insider threat landscape, and understand the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of working with sensitive data across a global enterprise
• You have experience with Insider Threat technologies (such as Security Information Event Management - SIEM, User Behavioral Analytics - UBA, Data Loss Prevention - DLP) and an understanding of investigations and/or the intelligence cycle
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Other team members ask for your input to communicate clearly and concisely and you are comfortable composing briefs and assessments consumed by leadership
• You prefer to play as a team and are equally comfortable as the ‘novice' or the ‘expert'
• Business acumen: Proven understanding of business dynamics, goals, and product strategy. Knowledge of how Security fits into Coinbase's overall business
• The ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, conflicting constraints, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
• 5+ years of security engineering experience solving complex security challenges across enterprise-wide DLP Programs
• Solving operational problems leveraging engineering / automation first mindset
• Experience in Web3 and crypto forward organizations or traditional financial institutions