Senior Software Engineer (Platform- Identity)

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Identity organization. The role involves owning the design and development of core platform services for account and identity management, while leading technical evolution and ensuring code quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for owning the design, development, and reliability of core platform services that underpin account and identity management across all Coinbase products
• Architecting and delivering backend platform services for account onboarding, organization management, and multi-user access across Coinbase products
• Leading the technical evolution from fragmented identity models to a unified accounts platform, defining APIs, data models, and system abstractions
• Owning reliability, scalability, and code quality for Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems serving millions of users
• Driving end-to-end execution on complex, cross-functional initiatives such as Coinbase Workspace (unified organization management)
• Championing engineering standards, code and design review culture, and technical strategy for the team
• Mentoring engineers and accelerating team velocity
• Collaborating cross-functionally with product, SRE, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust and compliant solutions
• Proactively identifying opportunities for platformization, modernization, and performance improvements to support future business growth

Requirements:

• Have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering
• Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Demonstrate the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
• You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
• You have experience in the auth domain
• You have experience with React (full stack experience is a big plus)
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
• You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB