[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Identity
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a company dedicated to increasing economic freedom, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Identity team within the Platform department. The role involves building systems related to user identity and delivering secure, multi-entity account management solutions at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and reliability of business-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems serving millions of customers, ensuring security, observability, and operational excellence
- Lead the evolution from fragmented user/org models to a unified Account abstraction — defining APIs, data models, and best practices adopted across every Coinbase product
- Architect and deliver platform services enabling seamless, secure, multi-entity account and identity management, making it fast and easy to add new entity types (e.g., org, partner, vertical)
- Champion technical excellence by driving code and design reviews, setting engineering standards, and shaping the team's technical culture
- Mentor and level-up engineers across the team, creating a multiplier effect on developer velocity and platform reliability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, 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 posture
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend systems
- Proven experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in a service-oriented architecture
- Track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code that meets customer needs and withstands production demands
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally across product, infrastructure, and compliance teams
- Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
- Experience at a company during rapid growth (startup to mid-size scale)
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.) and crypto-forward experience such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps, or blockchain-based services
- Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- Proficiency with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or Redshift
- Background building financial, high-reliability, or security systems
Benefits
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
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