Senior Software Engineer – Identity

Coinbase

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $186,065 - $218,900 per year

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About the role

Architect, build, and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management at Coinbase.
Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction—defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted by every Coinbase product.
Own design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems used by millions of customers.
Champion technical excellence—drive code/design reviews, set engineering standards, and help shape the team’s technical culture.
Mentor, inspire, and level-up engineers across the team to increase developer velocity and platform reliability.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infra, SRE, and compliance teams to deliver secure, observable, and extensible solutions.
Proactively identify opportunities for platformization, refactor legacy components, improve performance, and harden security and compliance.
Deliver solutions that make adding new entity types (e.g. org, partner, vertical) fast and easy—future-proofing Coinbase’s growth.
Work on making Coinbase APIs and models understand multi-user and organization support across products.

You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Passion for building an open financial system and crypto/blockchain technology.
Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices (nice to have).
Experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.) (nice to have).
Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift (nice to have).
Experience building financial, high reliability or security systems (nice to have).
Crypto-forward experience, including interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services (nice to have).

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