Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Client Lifecycle)
$186K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Owns and scales backend systems that onboard institutional clients, manage their access, and support them from application through first trade and ongoing operations.
What you'll do
- Build and operate onboarding, KYC refresh, provisioning, and access-control services, including automated screening, risk scoring, and provisioning.
- Lead the Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data; improve data quality, entity uniqueness, and Salesforce decoupling.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to launch onboarding and access controls for new products, and mentor engineers through design reviews and operational work.
What they ask for
- Production backend engineering experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale and composing service-oriented architectures; writes well-tested, production-grade code.
- Experience in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
- Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay
$186,065 — $218,900 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Go, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, observability tooling, Salesforce
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly, with human oversight, to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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