Coinbase: Offensive Security Engineer, AI — Remote - Canada

About Coinbase

Coinbase works on digital-asset and financial technology, with its recruitment material discussing an open financial system and crypto-related markets. Its advertised business activities connect consumer and business products with engineering, financial operations and regulated-market development. The company describes local product initiatives alongside the compliance, policy and operational work needed to support them. This gives the business both a technology dimension and a financial-services context, with product delivery linked to the requirements of the markets in which it operates.

The position and its setting

Coinbase lists Offensive Security Engineer, AI in Remote - Canada, under reference 8318599. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Security & Privacy
• Employer listing date: 23 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Build, deploy, and maintain custom security scanners that leverage frontier models to detect vulnerabilities at scale across Coinbase's product surface
• Leadership: red teaming efforts against internal AI systems, including jailbreak testing, prompt injection analysis, and tool abuse simulation
• Development: AI-driven automation for vulnerability triage, validation, and remediation workflows to accelerate the bug bounty and vulnerability response pipelines
• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize, remediate, and verify fixes for critical vulnerabilities discovered through AI-augmented and manual testing
• Mentor junior security engineers on integrating AI into offensive security workflows to scale team capabilities
• Required Skills and

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 3+ years of experience in application security, penetration testing, or offensive security with demonstrated ability to build custom security tooling
• Hands-on experience using LLMs or frontier models to automate security tasks, scale vulnerability research, or build security scanners
• Demonstrated experience red teaming AI-based systems (prompt injection, jailbreak testing, tool abuse)
• Deep understanding of common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25) and track record identifying and exploiting them in production environments
• Proficiency: at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar) with experience writing production-grade security tooling
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below
• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• $154,000 — $154,000 CAD
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Remote - Canada

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Coinbase

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Open the official Coinbase posting below and match the title and reference 8318599.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• AI/ML
• LLMs
• AI
• CAD
• incident response