Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity)

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer 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 be the lead across three sub-teams (Foundations Users Platformization and Settings & Account Management) drive roadmap execution in close partnership with your Engineering 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:

• 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 EM 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:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Demonstrated track record of architecting and delivering systems at scale — high-throughput high-availability services serving millions of requests in production
• Proven experience leading AI/LLM product development — building AI agents code generation systems or developer-facing AI tooling in production environments
• Strong command of Go gRPC Kubernetes and service mesh architectures
• Ability to drive technical clarity in ambiguous high-stakes situations — you can take a vague problem ("compliance teams can't self-serve") define the right solution space and execute it to completion
• A history of influencing across organizational boundaries — getting buy-in from skeptical stakeholders aligning competing priorities and building durable cross-team partnerships
• Excellent written and verbal communication — you produce technical design documents that build organizational confidence and create shared understanding
• Based in or able to commute to NYC or SF with willingness to work from the tech hub once or twice a week or on an as-needed basis for architecture reviews stakeholder meetings and team offsites

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 #: P76788

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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