Senior Software Engineer (Platform- Account Platform)

Coinbase Careers Page

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.
To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.
About the Team:
We are the Account Platform team – We are part of the Identity org that is responsible for everything related to Coinbase customer accounts - from authentication, access, authorization, account recovery, onboarding, identity verification etc. The services we build and support are the backbone of many critical user journeys across Coinbase.

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Demonstrate the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice To Haves

• You have experience in the auth domain.
• You have experience with React (full stack experience is a big plus) .
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for owning the design, development, and reliability of core platform services that underpin account and identity management across all Coinbase products.
• Architecting and delivering backend platform services for account onboarding, organization management, and multi-user access across Coinbase products
• Leading the technical evolution from fragmented identity models to a unified accounts platform, defining APIs, data models, and system abstractions
• Owning reliability, scalability, and code quality for Tier-0/Tier-1 backend systems serving millions of users
• Driving end-to-end execution on complex, cross-functional initiatives such as Coinbase Workspace (unified organization management)
• Championing engineering standards, code and design review culture, and technical strategy for the team
• Mentoring engineers and accelerating team velocity
• Collaborating cross-functionally with product, SRE, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust and compliant solutions
• Proactively identifying opportunities for platformization, modernization, and performance improvements to support future business growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed