Synapse Engineer – Threat Intelligence

🧾 Job Title:

Synapse Engineer – Threat Intelligence

📍 Location: United States (Remote)

💼 Type: Full-time

💰 Salary Range: $144,500 – $170,000 USD

📅 Reposted: 21 hours ago

🧠 Role Overview:

You’ll be part of the Threat Intelligence team within Security Operations — Coinbase’s first line of defense against global cyber threats.

Your focus: building and enhancing Vertex Synapse, a critical threat intelligence platform, used to:

• Detect and mitigate cyber threats
• Enrich and tag Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)
• Automate data handling for threat analysis

This is a highly technical engineering role with real-world security impact.

🔧 What You'll Do:

• Develop tools, enrichments, and automations within Vertex Synapse
• Translate security team needs into Synapse-powered solutions
• Enhance how IoCs and threat data are collected, tagged, enriched, and stored
• Build integrations and pipelines for internal and external threat intelligence feeds
• Rapidly prototype features to respond to emerging threats
• Collaborate closely with threat analysts, detection engineers, and security ops

✅ What They're Looking For:

Must-Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience working with Vertex Synapse
• Strong engineering background (Python likely most relevant)
• Experience developing security tools, enrichments, or automation
• Familiarity with security telemetry, tagging, and data enrichment pipelines
• Analytical thinker with a security mindset
• Effective collaborator and communicator across cross-functional teams

➕ Nice to Have / Implicit Plus Points:

• Experience in threat detection and/or SOC tooling
• Understanding of threat intelligence lifecycle (collection, processing, analysis)
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, threat modeling, or intelligence sharing (e.g., STIX/TAXII)
• Ability to rapidly iterate on prototypes based on changing threat conditions

📈 Compensation Overview:

• 💵 Base Salary: $144.5K – $170K USD
• ➕ Plus: Target bonus + stock options/equity
• 🏥 Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

This is competitive for a mid- to senior-level technical security role, especially in a high-stakes environment like Coinbase.