Senior Software Engineer (Platform - Identity)

Rozgoo; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity team within Platform and help build the systems that power every user’s relationship with Coinbase. You’ll architect and deliver APIs, data models, and backend services enabling secure, multi-entity account management at scale.

You’ll shape the platform that supports Consumer, Institutional, and new verticals. You’ll own the design and reliability of critical systems, drive engineering excellence, and mentor engineers to boost

Responsibilities

• Own the design and reliability of Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems serving millions of customers, ensuring security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction — APIs, data models, and best practices adopted across Coinbase products.
• Architect and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management, easily adding new entity types like org, partner, vertical.
• Champion technical excellence by driving code and design reviews, setting engineering standards, and shaping the team's technical culture.
• Mentor and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability.

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”learn more about working at Coinbase

About the Team:

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity team within Platform and help build the systems that power every user's relationship with Coinbase. The Identity team owns everything related to user identity — login, passwords, MFA, security questions, and session management — and the Accounts pod is driving the evolution from single-user models to a unified, multi-user and organization-aware platform. You'll architect and deliver the APIs, data models, and backend services that enable seamless, secure, multi-entity account management at Coinbase scale — future-proofing our growth across Consumer, Institutional, and new verticals.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own the design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems serving millions of customers, ensuring security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction — defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted across every Coinbase product.
• Architect and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management, making it fast and easy to add new entity types (e.g., org, partner, vertical).
• Champion technical excellence by driving code and design reviews, setting engineering standards, and shaping the team's technical culture.
• Mentor and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability.
• Collabor