Coinbase
Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Access & Authorization)
$218K–$256K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs and operates secure authentication and authorization services and tooling used across Coinbase products and partner integrations.
What you'll do
- Own the design, implementation, and operation of authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization capabilities.
- Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services; lead technical designs and improve observability, reliability, and SLOs.
- Partner across product, security, fraud, and infrastructure; simplify integrations and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language and production experience operating reliable, high-throughput distributed services.
- Experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling.
- Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and data stores such as Redis or DynamoDB; operational experience using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs.
- Track record delivering complex cross-functional projects from technical design through production rollout, with strong written and verbal communication.
Pay
$218,025 — $256,500 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Go, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Redis, DynamoDB, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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