Senior Software Engineer - Identity
Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer - Identity
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management at Coinbase.
- Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction—defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted by every Coinbase product.
- Own design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems used by millions of customers.
- Champion technical excellence—drive code/design reviews, set engineering standards, and help shape the team’s technical culture.
- Mentor, inspire, and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infra, SRE, and compliance teams to deliver secure, observable, and extensible solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for platformization, refactor legacy components, improve performance, and harden security and compliance.
- Deliver solutions that make adding new entity types (e.g. org, partner, vertical) fast and easy—future-proofing Coinbase’s growth.
Required Qualifications
- You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
Preferred Qualifications
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
- You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift.
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.
- You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
Required Skills
- software engineering
- designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services
- service oriented architecture
- writing high quality, well tested code
- Golang
- Ruby
- Docker
- Sinatra
- Rails
- Postgres
- MongoDB
- Redshift
- financial systems
- high reliability systems
- security systems
- Blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum)
- decomposing monolith into microservices
- Crypto-forward experience
- onchain activity
- Ethereum addresses
- ENS
- dApps
- blockchain-based services
Benefits
- bonus eligibility
- equity eligibility
- benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Salary Range
$186065 - $218900 USD
Locations
- Canada, Canada (Remote)
- USA, United States (Remote)
Salary
186,065 - 218,900 USD / yearly
Skills Required
- software engineeringintermediate
- designing, building, scaling and maintaining production servicesintermediate
- service oriented architectureintermediate
- writing high quality, well tested codeintermediate
- Golangintermediate
- Rubyintermediate
- Dockerintermediate
- Sinatraintermediate
- Railsintermediate
- Postgresintermediate
- MongoDBintermediate
- Redshiftintermediate
- financial systemsintermediate
- high reliability systemsintermediate
- security systemsintermediate
- Blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum)intermediate
- decomposing monolith into microservicesintermediate
- Crypto-forward experienceintermediate
- onchain activityintermediate
- Ethereum addressesintermediate
- ENSintermediate
- dAppsintermediate
- blockchain-based servicesintermediate
Required Qualifications
- You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering. (experience)
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture. (experience)
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers. (experience)
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together. (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size). (experience)
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.) (experience)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices. (experience)
- You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift. (experience)
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems. (experience)
- You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services. (experience)
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management at Coinbase.
- Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction—defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted by every Coinbase product.
- Own design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems used by millions of customers.
- Champion technical excellence—drive code/design reviews, set engineering standards, and help shape the team’s technical culture.
- Mentor, inspire, and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infra, SRE, and compliance teams to deliver secure, observable, and extensible solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for platformization, refactor legacy components, improve performance, and harden security and compliance.
- Deliver solutions that make adding new entity types (e.g. org, partner, vertical) fast and easy—future-proofing Coinbase’s growth.
Benefits
- general: bonus eligibility
- general: equity eligibility
- general: benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
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Senior Software Engineer - Identity
Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer - Identity
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management at Coinbase.
- Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction—defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted by every Coinbase product.
- Own design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems used by millions of customers.
- Champion technical excellence—drive code/design reviews, set engineering standards, and help shape the team’s technical culture.
- Mentor, inspire, and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infra, SRE, and compliance teams to deliver secure, observable, and extensible solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for platformization, refactor legacy components, improve performance, and harden security and compliance.
- Deliver solutions that make adding new entity types (e.g. org, partner, vertical) fast and easy—future-proofing Coinbase’s growth.
Required Qualifications
- You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
Preferred Qualifications
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
- You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift.
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.
- You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
Required Skills
- software engineering
- designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services
- service oriented architecture
- writing high quality, well tested code
- Golang
- Ruby
- Docker
- Sinatra
- Rails
- Postgres
- MongoDB
- Redshift
- financial systems
- high reliability systems
- security systems
- Blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum)
- decomposing monolith into microservices
- Crypto-forward experience
- onchain activity
- Ethereum addresses
- ENS
- dApps
- blockchain-based services
Benefits
- bonus eligibility
- equity eligibility
- benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Salary Range
$186065 - $218900 USD
Locations
- Canada, Canada (Remote)
- USA, United States (Remote)
Salary
186,065 - 218,900 USD / yearly
Skills Required
- software engineeringintermediate
- designing, building, scaling and maintaining production servicesintermediate
- service oriented architectureintermediate
- writing high quality, well tested codeintermediate
- Golangintermediate
- Rubyintermediate
- Dockerintermediate
- Sinatraintermediate
- Railsintermediate
- Postgresintermediate
- MongoDBintermediate
- Redshiftintermediate
- financial systemsintermediate
- high reliability systemsintermediate
- security systemsintermediate
- Blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum)intermediate
- decomposing monolith into microservicesintermediate
- Crypto-forward experienceintermediate
- onchain activityintermediate
- Ethereum addressesintermediate
- ENSintermediate
- dAppsintermediate
- blockchain-based servicesintermediate
Required Qualifications
- You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering. (experience)
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture. (experience)
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers. (experience)
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together. (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size). (experience)
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.) (experience)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices. (experience)
- You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift. (experience)
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems. (experience)
- You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services. (experience)
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management at Coinbase.
- Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction—defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted by every Coinbase product.
- Own design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems used by millions of customers.
- Champion technical excellence—drive code/design reviews, set engineering standards, and help shape the team’s technical culture.
- Mentor, inspire, and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infra, SRE, and compliance teams to deliver secure, observable, and extensible solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for platformization, refactor legacy components, improve performance, and harden security and compliance.
- Deliver solutions that make adding new entity types (e.g. org, partner, vertical) fast and easy—future-proofing Coinbase’s growth.
Benefits
- general: bonus eligibility
- general: equity eligibility
- general: benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
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