Coinbase
Financial Services
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,Backend-Identity
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“Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Identity at Coinbase. Skills: Identity management, Account management, Backend services. Own design and reliability of business-critical systems. Ensure security, observability, and operational excellence”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive measurable improvements in efficiency; Drive measurable improvements in cost; Drive measurable improvements in quality
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
Quarterly in-person working sessions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in software engineering, backend systems focus, designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, service-oriented architecture experience, writing high-quality, well-tested code, collaboration skills
Nice to Have
Experience at company during rapid growth, Familiarity with blockchain technologies, crypto-forward experience, Experience decomposing monolith into microservices, Proficiency with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or Redshift, Background building financial, high-reliability, or security systems
What You'll Do.
Own design and reliability of business-critical systems
and operational excellence
Lead evolution to unified Account abstraction
Architect and deliver platform services
multi-entity account management
Make it fast to add new entity types
Champion technical excellence
Drive code and design reviews
Set engineering standards
Shape team's technical culture
Collaborate cross-functionally
and extensible solutions
Identify opportunities for platformization
Refactor legacy components
Harden security posture
Harden compliance posture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functionally with Product; Cross-functionally with Infrastructure; Cross-functionally with SRE; Cross-functionally with Compliance teams
Full Job Description
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. About the Team: We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity team within Platform and help build the systems that power every user's relationship with Coinbase. The Identity team owns everything related to user identity — login, passwords, MFA, security questions, and session management — and the Accounts pod is driving the evolution from single-user models to a unified, multi-user and organization-aware platform. You'll architect and deliver the APIs, data models, and backend services that enable seamless, secure, multi-entity account management at Coinbase scale — future-proofing our growth across Consumer, Institutional, and new verticals. What you’ll be doing: 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 acros
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