Senior Platform IAM Tech Lead — Identity & Access

Coinbase, Inc.; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Access Management within Platform.

You will own the technical strategy that unifies workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity into a coherent platform, setting architecture across pods and guiding hundreds of engineering teams. The role requires deep IAM expertise, production Go experience on AWS, and the ability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated controls while mentoring staff to deepen

Qualifications

• 12+ years software engineering with platform leadership across multiple teams.
• Deep IAM expertise in workforce, authorization, and non-human identity.
• Production Go experience and distributed systems design in AWS.
• Experience translating audit requirements into automated controls.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year IAM technology strategy across pods and teams.
• Drive adoption strategy for 700+ systems with clear migration paths.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, IT, and product leaders on controls.
• Mentor staff and raise organizational depth in identity.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

AWS

Identity & Access Management

OAuth/OIDC/SAML

Regulatory compliance

Mentoring staff

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Access Management within Platform.

You will own the technical strategy that unifies workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity into a coherent platform, setting architecture across pods and guiding hundreds of engineering teams. The role requires deep IAM expertise, production Go experience on AWS, and the ability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated controls while mentoring staff to deepen