Staff Backend Engineer – Secure Access & Auth Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Access & Authorization team, you will help shape authentication and authorization capabilities across Coinbase products and partner integrations, balancing security with a seamless user experience.

You will build and operate Go-based, low-latency services with strong observability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure teams to meet regulatory

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with Go or a comparable systems language.
• Experience designing secure APIs and authentication/authorization, tokens.
• Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Redis or DynamoDB; observability and SLOs.

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 strong observability, failure testing, and measurable SLOs.
• Lead technical designs for complex 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 that enables product teams to adopt access and authorization capabilities safely at scale.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWTs

PKCE

gRPC

Protobufs

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Access & Authorization team, you will help shape authentication and authorization capabilities across Coinbase products and partner integrations, balancing security with a seamless user experience.

You will build and operate Go-based, low-latency services with strong observability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure teams to meet regulatory