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The role
Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Access & Authorization team in its Platform group, building the authentication, OAuth, session and token services used across Coinbase products. Coinbase is remote-first, with quarterly in-person sessions.
What you will do
- Own design, build and operation of authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery and edge authorization
- Build low-latency Go and gRPC services with observability, failure testing and SLOs
- Lead designs for signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication and mobile OAuth
- Work with product, security, fraud and infrastructure teams on conversion, protection and regulation trade-offs
- Build self-service tooling so product teams can adopt access capabilities safely
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews and on-call
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend engineering, strong in Go or a similar systems language, running high-throughput distributed services
- Experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization and tokens (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, PKCE)
- Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers and Redis or DynamoDB
- Operational experience with metrics, logs, traces, alerts and SLOs
- Delivered cross-functional projects from design to rollout
- Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight
What they offer
- Equity and bonus eligibility on top of base salary
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits
- Remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions
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