Remote-First Senior Software Engineer, Access & Auth Platform

Coinbase; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Access & Authorization in the Platform group. You will design and operate authentication, OAuth flows, and edge authorization to support Coinbase products and partner integrations.

Build low-latency Go and gRPC services, ensure observability, and drive security with token handling, signed tokens, and device-aware authentication. Equity and benefits may be part of compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with Go or a comparable systems-oriented language.
• Demonstrated experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs).
• Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and data stores such as Redis or DynamoDB, with strong operational instincts using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs to run critical services.
• Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects from technical design through production rollout, with clear written and verbal communication that aligns engineering, security, product, and infrastructure partners.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of capabilities across authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.
• Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services used across Coinbase’s web, mobile, API, and partner experiences, with strong observability, failure testing, and measurable SLOs.
• Lead technical designs for complex initiatives such as signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth.
• Partner with product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams to balance customer conversion, account protection, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints.
• Simplify integration patterns and build self-service tooling that enables product teams to adopt access and authorization capabilities safely at scale.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWTs

gRPC

Code reviews

Mentoring

Tools

Protocol Buffers

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Access & Authorization in the Platform group. You will design and operate authentication, OAuth flows, and edge authorization to support Coinbase products and partner integrations.

Build low-latency Go and gRPC services, ensure observability, and drive security with token handling, signed tokens, and device-aware authentication. Equity and benefits may be part of compensation.