Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Access & Authorization)

Coinbase Careers Page • $218K — $256K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
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8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, proficient in Go or similar language.
  • Experience designing secure APIs and managing authentication/authorization intricacies.
  • Proficient in gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and data storage solutions like Redis or DynamoDB.
  • Demonstrated track record of delivering cross-functional technical projects effectively.
  • Ability to responsibly utilize generative AI to enhance workflow outputs.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and operation of authentication and authorization capabilities.
  • Build secure Go and gRPC services to enhance various Coinbase experiences.
  • Lead the technical design on complex security initiatives.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for balancing user experience and security.
  • Simplify integration processes and create self-service tools for product teams.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate the team's technical standards through reviews.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with company contribution.
  • Equity options and bonus eligibility.
Full Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Access & Authorization

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Access & Authorization team within the Platform group, you'll help shape the systems customers use to securely access Coinbase. This team builds and operates distributed services at the intersection of security, identity, developer infrastructure, and customer experience. You'll design foundational authentication and authorization capabilities that balance strong security with a simple experience, creating leverage across every Coinbase product and partner integration.

What you'll do:
  • 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 used across Coinbase's web, mobile, API, and partner experiences, with strong observability, failure testing, and measurable SLOs.
  • Lead technical designs for complex initiatives such as 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 that enables product teams to adopt access and authorization capabilities safely at scale.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Required Skills and Experience:
  • 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language, including building and operating reliable, high-throughput distributed services in production.
  • Demonstrated experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, PKCE, or related standards).
  • Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and data stores such as Redis or DynamoDB, with strong operational instincts using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs to run critical services.
  • Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects from technical design through production rollout, with clear written and verbal communication that aligns engineering, security, product, and infrastructure partners.
  • 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:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$218,025-$256,500 USD

  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

About Coinbase Careers Page

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There has never been a better time to join the global team of Coinbase professionals, a leading force in the cryptocurrency industry and a hub for innovation and growth.

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