Remote-First Senior IAM Platform Architect

Coinbase, Inc.; Lansing (MI); À distance; USD 254 000 - 299 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead) for Identity & Access Management within Platform, owning the technical strategy that unifies human, AI, service, and workload identity into one coherent platform. IAM is distributed across 700+ internal systems, so this role shapes architecture, drives adoption, and sets engineering standards.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security and compliance, and translate audit requirements into automated controls while enabling

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience leading platform architecture across multiple teams.
• Deep IAM expertise across workforce identity, authorization, access lifecycle, or non-human identity.
• Production Go experience and distributed systems design on AWS with identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM).
• Proven influence at senior levels, guiding technical direction across orgs.
• Ability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated controls with clear communication.
• Experience using generative AI responsibly to improve workflows with human oversight.

Responsabilités

• Own the multi-year technical strategy for IAM end to end, including architecture unifying workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity.
• Drive architecture decisions across multiple pods and teams you don't manage - establishing standards and integration contracts.
• Build adoption strategy for 700+ systems, including sequencing, migration paths, and make-or-buy decisions.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product engineering leadership to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated controls.
• Lead the data model and tooling that answer who has access to what, and why, across a heterogeneous estate.
• Grow the technical bench by mentoring staff and senior engineers and raising the org's depth in identity.

Connaissances

IAM expertise

Go programming

AWS distributed systems

Executive communication

Mentoring

Generative AI usage

Description du poste

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead) for Identity & Access Management within Platform, owning the technical strategy that unifies human, AI, service, and workload identity into one coherent platform. IAM is distributed across 700+ internal systems, so this role shapes architecture, drives adoption, and sets engineering standards.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security and compliance, and translate audit requirements into automated controls while enabling