Senior Staff Software Engineer - Secure Access & Authorization

Coinbase, Inc.; Carson City (NV); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Access & Authorization team within the Platform group to shape secure access for Coinbase products and partners.

You will design and operate authentication capabilities including OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, and edge authorization, delivering scalable, observable services. You will build low-latency Go services with gRPC, collaborate with product, security, fraud, and infra teams, and mentor engineers while driving adoption of secure

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language.
• Experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, PKCE).
• Strong operational instincts using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs to run critical services.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of capabilities across 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 initiatives such as signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth.
• Partner with product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams to balance customer conversion, account protection, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints.
• Simplify integration patterns and build self-service tooling enabling product teams to adopt access and authorization safely at scale.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Skills

Backend Go development

OAuth / OpenID Connect

JWT / token handling

gRPC / Protocol Buffers

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Go

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Access & Authorization team within the Platform group to shape secure access for Coinbase products and partners.

You will design and operate authentication capabilities including OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, and edge authorization, delivering scalable, observable services. You will build low-latency Go services with gRPC, collaborate with product, security, fraud, and infra teams, and mentor engineers while driving adoption of secure