Senior Backend Engineer — Institutional Onboarding & Access

Coinbase, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a backend-focused leader to own core services moving institutional clients from application to first trade, including onboarding and provisioning. You’ll help automate screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning to reduce manual work while maintaining compliance and security.

You will design and evangelize an Organizations Service as the truth for institutional client data, ensuring data quality and Salesforce decoupling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production backend experience in a service-oriented architecture.
• Production experience with Go, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
• Proven track record of well-tested, production-grade code with strong review habits.
• Experience in regulated domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
• Responsible use of AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning.
• Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning so low-risk clients complete onboarding without an ops ticket.
• Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data, including data quality, entity uniqueness, and Salesforce decoupling.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products including FCM, Hudson derivatives, and Prime Custody.
• Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies, and consensus) so complex institutions can operate on Prime without opening a ticket.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.

Skills

Backend development

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational databases

Observability

Testing

Security & Compliance

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a backend-focused leader to own core services moving institutional clients from application to first trade, including onboarding and provisioning. You’ll help automate screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning to reduce manual work while maintaining compliance and security.

You will design and evangelize an Organizations Service as the truth for institutional client data, ensuring data quality and Salesforce decoupling.