Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform in USA new

Coinbase
Full time
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USA
09/11/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Own the multi-year technical strategy and end-to-end architecture for workforce, AI agent, service, and workload identity.
Drive architecture decisions, standards, review bars, and integration contracts across multiple pods and teams without direct management authority.
Develop adoption, sequencing, migration, and build-versus-buy strategies for more than 700 internal systems.
Partner with Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product engineering leadership to automate audit and regulatory controls.
Lead data models and tooling that provide visibility into access, reduce standing privilege, and improve secure access workflows.
Mentor staff and senior engineers and increase organizational expertise in identity engineering.

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience and a track record as the most senior technical leader for multi-team platforms adopted across numerous consuming teams.
Deep IAM expertise across multiple domains, including substantive experience with service or workload identity at scale.
Production Go experience and distributed systems design experience on AWS.
Fluency in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and workload identity patterns.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and secure leadership alignment across teams and organizations without direct authority.
Ability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated technical controls and communicate complex identity issues to executive audiences.
Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

Remote-first, but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), equity, and bonus eligibility are mentioned; total compensation may include equity and bonus.
Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

Salary: $254k - $299k/yr

Coinbase

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more...

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