Engineering Manager (Platform - Identity)

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity Accounts team — the platform foundation that powers every user organization and account at Coinbase. This is one of the most visible and business-critical engineering platforms at the company: your team's services handle authentication authorization security settings and account management for millions of customers across every Coinbase product. You'll manage engineers across three sub-teams (Foundations Users Platformization and Settings & Account Management) drive roadmap execution in close partnership with your Tech Lead and Product Manager and represent the team to 20+ internal product groups and key partners in Security Risk Compliance and Design. If you thrive at the intersection of deep technical problems and cross-functional leadership this role is for you.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers across backend frontend and site reliability — building a high-performing team through hiring coaching and career development.
• Drive roadmap execution across three focused sub-teams: Foundations (authorization infrastructure) Users Platformization (decomposing the legacy monolith) and Settings & Account Management (Security Settings 2.0 account navigation redesign).
• Own reliability and operational excellence for 8+ mission-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 services — maintaining 99.99% uptime championing engineering quality and acting as quarterback during high-severity incidents.
• Represent the team to internal product groups and key partners in Security Risk Compliance and Design — building alignment and ensuring seamless integration support.
• Partner with Product and your Tech Lead to define strategic roadmaps prioritize initiatives and translate complex constraints into simple scalable platform solutions.
• Champion engineering excellence — drive code and design reviews set engineering standards and build every capability to be composable and reusable across product lines (no bespoke one-off integrations).
• Accelerate internal customers by reducing new product team onboarding time to under 2 weeks and delivering excellent APIs clear documentation and strong integration support.

What we look for in you:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 2 years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers.
• Proven track record shipping large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users in production.
• Technical fluency in coding system design API architecture and reliability tradeoffs — able to be hands-on when needed (writing/reviewing code leading incidents triaging bugs).
• Strong communicator who writes clearly builds organizational alignment and can represent the team effectively to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams through hiring developing and promoting talent.
• Demonstrates 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.

Nice to haves

• Experience in identity authentication authorization or account management systems.
• Prior experience leading a Platform team or similar domain with high internal customer dependency.
• Familiarity with our stack: Go gRPC React SpiceDB Kubernetes PostgreSQL Kafka Datadog.
• Background building financial high-reliability or security systems.

Job #: P76362

What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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