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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform - IAM

Coinbase· Platform
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Remote$253.9k - $298.7kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead) for Identity & Access Management within Coinbase Platform, owning the technical strategy that unifies human, AI agent, service, and workload identity into a coherent IAM platform across 700+ internal systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the multi-year technical strategy for IAM end to end, including architecture that unifies workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity under a common model with shared primitives for authentication, authorization, provisioning, and governance.
  • Drive architecture decisions across multiple pods and teams you don't manage - establishing standards, review bars, and integration contracts for the rest of engineering.
  • Build the adoption strategy for 700+ systems, including sequencing, migration paths, and build-vs-buy decisions determining ownership vs integration.
  • Partner with Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product engineering leadership to translate audit and regulatory requirements (UAR, SOX, SOC 2) into automated controls and self-generating evidence.
  • Lead the data model and tooling that answer 'who has access to what, and why' across a heterogeneous estate, reducing standing privilege while making the secure path the fast path.
  • Grow the technical bench by mentoring staff and senior engineers and deepening identity as a domain.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including a track record as the most senior technical leader on a platform spanning multiple teams with multi-year architecture driven to adoption across dozens of consuming teams.
  • Deep IAM expertise across more than one domain (workforce identity, authorization, access lifecycle, or non-human identity) with substantive experience in service or workload identity - service-to-service auth, workload identity federation, or machine credential management at scale.
  • Production Go experience and distributed systems design on AWS, with fluency in identity protocols and standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and workload identity patterns).
  • Proven influence without authority at senior levels - you've changed the technical direction of teams and orgs outside your own and secured leadership alignment on ambiguous, org-wide access-risk problems.
  • Ability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated technical controls, with clear written and verbal communication that frames complex identity problems for executive audiences.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Skills

Required:IAM architectureGo programmingDistributed systems designSecurity and regulatory alignment

Benefits

  • Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Wellness Stipend
  • Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Fertility Counseling and Benefits
  • Generous Time off/Leave Policy
  • The option of getting paid in digital currency
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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