Senior Software Engineer: Secure Access & Auth Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Charleston (WV); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Access & Authorization. You will design and operate authentication and authorization capabilities across the platform, developing secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services used by Coinbase products, partners, and customers.

You will lead complex initiatives like tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, and device-aware authentication while collaborating with product, security, and infrastructure teams to maintain security, reliability, and a great

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software engineering experience.
• Experience designing secure APIs and authentication/authorization.
• Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Redis or DynamoDB.
• Strong cross-functional communication and delivery of complex projects.
• Responsible use of AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.
• Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services used across Coinbase's web, mobile, API, and partner experiences, with observability and SLOs.
• Lead technical designs for signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth.
• Partner with product, security, fraud, and infra teams to balance user experience with security and compliance.
• Simplify integration patterns and build self-service tooling for safe adoption at scale.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWTs

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Security

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Access & Authorization. You will design and operate authentication and authorization capabilities across the platform, developing secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services used by Coinbase products, partners, and customers.

You will lead complex initiatives like tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, and device-aware authentication while collaborating with product, security, and infrastructure teams to maintain security, reliability, and a great