Staff Software Engineer – Platform, Access & Authorization

🕒 August 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $218k - $256.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Coinbase

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

Consulting • Crypto • Finance

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows individuals and institutions to buy, sell, and trade various crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers advanced trading tools, institutional solutions, and a self-hosted wallet for storing and managing cryptocurrencies. With a strong focus on security and transparency, Coinbase provides a trusted platform used by millions globally. It supports various features including staking, earning rewards, and spending crypto through their cards. Additionally, Coinbase provides developer tools and APIs for building onchain applications, making it a comprehensive hub for engaging in the crypto economy.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of capabilities across authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization. • Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services for Coinbase web, mobile, API, and partner experiences, with observability, failure testing, and measurable SLOs. • Lead technical designs for signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth. • Partner with product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams to balance customer conversion, account protection, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints. • Simplify integration patterns and build self-service tooling for safe, scalable adoption of access and authorization capabilities. • Mentor engineers and raise technical standards through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience. • Strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language. • Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput distributed production services. • Experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling. • Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, PKCE, or related standards. • Proficiency with gRPC and Protocol Buffers. • Experience with Redis or DynamoDB. • Strong operational skills using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs. • Track record delivering complex cross-functional projects from technical design through production rollout. • Clear written and verbal communication. • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight and measurable workflow improvements.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity eligibility • Bonus eligibility • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”

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