Data Protection Engineer

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . You'll join the Security Operations team as a Data Protection Engineer, helping implement and scale the data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities that protect the Coinbase ecosystem from security threats. This team builds and operates data protection controls across a decentralized tech environment, balancing strong security with the speed of business. You'll focus on automating DLP operations using LLMs and agentic AI, deploying scalable prevention solutions, and partnering cross-functionally to mitigate data security risk and maintain compliance with global regulations. What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties): Build and maintain DLP controls and tooling across multiple OS environments (iOS, Chrome) and decentralized datasets, implementing and tuning prevention capabilities that protect against sophisticated data security incidents. Drive automation across DLP engineering and operations by leveraging LLMs, agentic AI, and an automation-first mindset to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and scale data protection coverage. Partner with cross-functional teams, including endpoint security, IT, engineering, product, compliance, and privacy, to deploy data protection technologies, ensure timely remediation, and support cross-functional data protection initiatives. Execute monitoring and metrics reporting by producing quantitative and qualitative measures of programmatic impact,