Specialty
The role
Coinbase is hiring a senior software engineer for its Security Platform Engineering group. The team owns the public and internal certificate management systems the company relies on. The company is remote-first, with quarterly in-person working sessions.
What you will do
- Lead architecture and delivery of cryptographic infrastructure
- Set multi-quarter technical strategy for new cryptographic solutions with unclear requirements
- Build secure, resilient cryptographic protocols and high-availability certificate services
- Mentor senior engineers and run rigorous code reviews
- Align Security, Product and Policy partners on delivery
What they ask for
- 5+ years in software engineering building highly available distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of PKI and applied cryptography, including operating certificate authorities
- Experience automating X.509 certificate lifecycles: issuance, renewal, revocation, trust distribution
- Experience protecting private keys with HSMs or cloud KMS
- Strong systems-language experience in Go, Java, C++ or Rust, in a Go-heavy environment
- Experience running Tier-0 infrastructure with strict resilience and latency needs
- Experience leading technical strategy and handling regulatory requirements
What they offer
- Equity and bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k)
- Quarterly in-person team sessions
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