Senior Software Engineer - Access & Authorization (Platform)

Coinbase, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Bonus Eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate secure, low-latency authentication and authorization services across Coinbase products and partner integrations.

You will lead complex technical initiatives, improve self-service integration tools, and collaborate across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams, while mentoring engineers. Requirements include five+ years of backend experience with Go or similar systems language, and deep expertise in

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of backend engineering experience with Go or a comparable systems-oriented language, with a record of operating reliable, high-throughput distributed services.
• Experience with secure APIs and identity standards, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, data stores, service observability, cross-functional delivery, and responsible use of generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, low-latency authentication and authorization services and capabilities across Coinbase products and partner integrations.
• Lead complex technical initiatives, improve self-service integration tools, collaborate across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Go

Distributed Systems

Authentication

Authorization

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWT

PKCE

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Redis

DynamoDB

Session Management

Observability

SLOs

Generative AI

Job description

Design, build, and operate secure, low-latency authentication and authorization services and capabilities across Coinbase products and partner integrations. Lead complex technical initiatives, improve self-service integration tools, collaborate across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

Requires at least five years of backend engineering experience and proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language, with a record of operating reliable, high-throughput distributed services. Candidates should have experience with secure APIs and identity standards, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, data stores, service observability, cross-functional delivery, and responsible use of generative AI.

Key Skills

• Go
• Distributed Systems
• Authentication
• Authorization
• OAuth 2.0
• OpenID Connect
• JWT
• PKCE
• gRPC
• Protocol Buffers
• Redis
• DynamoDB
• Session Management
• Observability
• SLOs
• Generative AI

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• Equity
• Bonus Eligibility