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 on‑chain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

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.

This role will drive second line of defense technology compliance initiatives across crypto derivatives services and drive risk reduction through “controls by design” and ongoing monitoring.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Assess SOX, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 implications of crypto derivatives services and evaluate compliance posture against those frameworks and certifications.
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable engineering and business requirements, ensuring systems for collateral management, market data, and trade settlement are demonstrably compliant.
• Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, Engineering, and Product to advise on technology and security requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership.
• Lead incident impact analysis procedures for consumer products and services.
• Provide ongoing metrics and reporting to stakeholders and leadership, communicating progress and escalations.
• Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive control and testing requirement documentation and deliver training to owners over control implementation, maintenance and remediation plans.
• Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex regulatory problems faced by the crypto industry.
• Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks.

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 such as 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).
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity and able to manage multiple assessments/priorities concurrently.
• Clear and concise communicator and writer; experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders and documenting deliverables for junior and senior audiences.
• Regulatory familiarity: understanding of financial derivatives is essential (futures, options, perpetuals) and core exchange functions such as order matching, risk engines, margining, and clearing.
• Drive for continuous learning and willingness to embrace a steep learning curve.
• Excellent organization and project management skills; able to perform effectively in a fast‑moving and demanding environment.
• Clear cross‑functional communication skills to align technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• BA or BS in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with MiFID requirements (listed as experience).

Nice to Haves

• FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer‑facing disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of risk/control issues related to evolving technology (crypto, cloud, data lakes, machine learning).
• Information security risk management certifications are a plus (CISA, CISSP, CISM).
• Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision / eye care vouchers
• Life assurance benefit
• Disability / income protection
• Workplace pension scheme
• Global travel medical policy
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Wellness stipend
• Mobile / internet reimbursement
• Connections stipend
• Learning and development allowance
• Employee assistance program
• Fertility benefits
• Generous time off / leave policy

Other information

• Position ID: P72517
• Remote status: Role is tagged remote (#LI-Remote) and Coinbase is remote‑first but not remote‑only; in‑person participation and offsites required periodically.
• Pay transparency: Target annual salary range shown below. Full time offers also include target bonus + target equity + benefits.
• Pay Range: £127,080 — £141,200 GBP

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities are available upon request.