Senior Staff IAM Platform Architect & Strategy

Coinbase; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead) for Identity & Access Management within Platform, owning the technical strategy unifying workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity into one platform. IAM spans 700+ internal systems, set architecture, drive adoption, and be a senior voice for identity across Coinbase.

You will mentor engineers, shape data models, and collaborate with Security, Compliance, IT, and product leadership to translate audits into automated

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with multi-team leadership.
• Deep IAM expertise across workforce, authorization, or non-human identity.
• Go production experience and AWS distributed systems.
• Influence without authority and alignment at senior levels.
• Ability to translate audit/regulatory requirements into automated controls.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year IAM technical strategy across platforms.
• Set architecture standards across pods and teams.
• Develop adoption strategy for 700+ systems.
• Translate audit requirements into automated controls.
• Lead data model for access provenance and governance.
• Mentor engineers and grow identity domain depth.

Skills

Senior technical leader

IAM expertise

Go programming

AWS & distributed

Regulatory controls

AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead) for Identity & Access Management within Platform, owning the technical strategy unifying workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity into one platform. IAM spans 700+ internal systems, set architecture, drive adoption, and be a senior voice for identity across Coinbase.

You will mentor engineers, shape data models, and collaborate with Security, Compliance, IT, and product leadership to translate audits into automated