Staff Software Engineer, Security Platform

CoinbaseAsiaLead8+ years experienceSecurity

Specialty

Security

The role

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Security Platform Engineering team, which builds platforms for secrets and key management, identity, onchain security, policy and vulnerability management. Coinbase is remote-first, with quarterly in-person working sessions.

What you will do

  • Architect and build the platform used by the security platform engineering org
  • Build new backend services in Go or Java for product and business needs
  • Design scalable systems using modern cloud technology
  • Set technical structure and strategic roadmaps with management and stakeholders
  • Review feature designs across the company for security, scale and operability
  • Mentor engineers on design techniques and coding standards

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, including service-oriented architecture
  • Strong system design and coding skills
  • Writes well-tested, high-quality code and debugs hard technical problems
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight
  • Able to attend quarterly in-person working sessions

What they offer

  • Equity and bonus eligibility on top of base salary
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Coinbase's careers page behind the apply button.

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