Senior Backend Security Engineer — Identity & Access

Coinbase, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Bonus Eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate secure, low-latency authentication and authorization services including OAuth, sessions, tokens, two-factor authentication, account recovery, and edge authorization.

You will lead complex technical initiatives, improve self-service integration tools, collaborate across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• At least five years of backend engineering experience with a systems-oriented focus.
• Experience with secure APIs and identity standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure authentication/authorization services.
• Lead complex technical initiatives and improve self-service integration tools.
• Collaborate across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams; mentor engineers.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Authentication

Authorization

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWT

Observability

Generative AI

Tools

Go

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate secure, low-latency authentication and authorization services including OAuth, sessions, tokens, two-factor authentication, account recovery, and edge authorization.

You will lead complex technical initiatives, improve self-service integration tools, collaborate across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers.