Platform Access & Authorization Engineer (Staff)

Omaze; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Access & Authorization team to shape authentication and authorization across Coinbase products. You will design foundational capabilities that balance strong security with a simple user experience, impacting customers and partners alike.

You will build secure Go services, drive edge authentication, and collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure to meet regulatory requirements while maintaining high performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with Go or a similar systems-oriented language.
• Experience designing secure APIs and handling authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs).
• Proficient with gRPC and data stores like Redis or DynamoDB, with strong observability and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, and operation of authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, recovery, and edge authorization.
• Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services used across Coinbase's platforms with observability and SLOs.
• Lead technical designs for tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth.
• Partner with product, security, fraud, and infra teams to balance conversion, protection, and regulatory needs.
• Build self-service tooling to enable safe adoption of access controls at scale.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar via reviews and on-call participation.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWTs

PKCE

gRPC

Observability

Core security

Tools

Protocol Buffers

Redis

DynamoDB

GRPC

Metrics

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Access & Authorization team to shape authentication and authorization across Coinbase products. You will design foundational capabilities that balance strong security with a simple user experience, impacting customers and partners alike.

You will build secure Go services, drive edge authentication, and collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure to meet regulatory requirements while maintaining high performance and reliability.