Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer

Summary

Coinbase is a company focused on increasing economic freedom through the future of finance. The Threat Intelligence Platform Engineer will own and operate the Vertex Synapse platform, integrate and model threat intelligence sources, and deliver automations and intelligence to security operations, detections, and downstream systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the production Vertex Synapse instance, including platform health, backend operations, cron monitoring, and data hygiene
• Build and maintain intelligence feed integrations, enrichments, and tagging so new sources land modeled and usable by stakeholders
• Ship intelligence into downstream controls and data pipelines, including detections, blocklists, data warehouses, and agent workflows
• Partner across Security and Product to translate intelligence requirements into production capabilities
• Rapidly prototype and implement features, fixes, and tooling as required by the team's Intelligence Analysts and stakeholders

Skills

• 2+ years building and operating threat intelligence platforms or security data pipelines in production environments
• Software development experience in Python, Go, and/or Storm, including deploying production-quality code with CI/CD ownership after ship
• Experience ingesting, modeling, tagging, and lifecycle-managing indicators and related intelligence data at scale
• Track record of troubleshooting and restoring production systems and data quality issues, then driving root-cause fixes to prevent recurrence
• Experience translating cross-functional stakeholder needs into technical solutions within a security operations context
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years building and operating threat intelligence platforms or security data pipelines in production environments
• Software development experience in Python, Go, and/or Storm, including deploying production-quality code with CI/CD ownership after ship
• Experience ingesting, modeling, tagging, and lifecycle-managing indicators and related intelligence data at scale
• Track record of troubleshooting and restoring production systems and data quality issues, then driving root-cause fixes to prevent recurrence
• Experience translating cross-functional stakeholder needs into technical solutions within a security operations context
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Remote-first work arrangement
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”