Staff Software Engineer, Secure Access & Authorization (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Access & Authorization team to shape authentication and authorization systems across Coinbase products.

You’ll design and operate secure, low-latency services in Go and gRPC, balancing strong security with a simple user experience. You’ll own end-to-end design for OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, and edge authorization, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security, and infra teams to scale access capabilities while maintaining

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language.
• Designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, and token handling.
• Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and data stores like Redis or DynamoDB.
• Ability to deliver complex, cross-functional projects with clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Security design

APIs design

OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect

JWTs/PKCE

gRPC

Tools

Protocol Buffers

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Access & Authorization team to shape authentication and authorization systems across Coinbase products.

You’ll design and operate secure, low-latency services in Go and gRPC, balancing strong security with a simple user experience. You’ll own end-to-end design for OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, and edge authorization, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security, and infra teams to scale access capabilities while maintaining