Senior Backend Engineer, Access & Authorization

Coinbase, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape authentication and access layers across our platform. You will build secure, high-throughput Go services and contribute to company-wide security and customer experience initiatives.

This role emphasizes design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and robust operational practices. You will own end-to-end auth capabilities, including OAuth workflows, tokens, 2FA, and edge authorization, while mentoring others and delivering scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with Go or a comparable language.
• Experience designing secure APIs with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWTs and tokens.
• Proficiency with gRPC and data stores like Redis or DynamoDB; strong observability.
• Track record delivering cross-functional projects from design to production.
• Uses AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and operation of authentication, sessions, tokens, and 2FA.
• Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services across Coinbase products.
• Lead technical designs for signed tokens, passkeys, device-aware auth, and mobile OAuth.
• Collaborate with product, security, fraud and infra teams to balance goals and constraints.
• Create self-service tooling for teams to adopt access capabilities safely at scale.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to reviews, pairing, and on-call duties.

Skills

Go

API design

gRPC

Distributed systems

Cross-functional

AI usage

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

Protobufs

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape authentication and access layers across our platform. You will build secure, high-throughput Go services and contribute to company-wide security and customer experience initiatives.

This role emphasizes design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and robust operational practices. You will own end-to-end auth capabilities, including OAuth workflows, tokens, 2FA, and edge authorization, while mentoring others and delivering scalable