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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity) - **Company:** Coinbase, Inc. - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Code Generation, PostgreSQL, Local Security Policy, Software Engineering, Datadog, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Grpc, Golang - **Published:** July 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F1D5A8AC80564EBCBE2A4D11F30FA126/job/ ## About the Role * 8+ years of software engineering experience * Demonstrated track record of architecting and delivering systems at scale - high-throughput, high-availability services serving millions of requests in production * Proven experience leading AI/LLM product development - building AI agents, code generation systems, or developer-facing AI tooling in production environments * Strong command of Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, and service mesh architectures * Ability to drive technical clarity in ambiguous, high-stakes situations - you can take a vague problem ("compliance teams can't self-serve"), define the right solution space, and execute it to completion * A history of influencing across organizational boundaries - getting buy-in from skeptical stakeholders, aligning competing priorities, and building durable cross-team partnerships * Excellent written and verbal communication - you produce technical design documents that build organizational confidence and create shared understanding * Based in or able to commute to NYC or SF, with willingness to work from the tech hub once or twice a week or on an as-needed basis for architecture reviews, stakeholder meetings, and team offsites Nice to haves: * Experience in identity, authentication, authorization, or account management systems. * Prior experience leading a Platform team or similar domain with high internal customer dependency. * Familiarity with our stack: Go, gRPC, React, SpiceDB, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Datadog. * Background building financial, high-reliability, or security systems. ## Description What you'll be doing: * Drive roadmap execution across three focused sub-teams: Foundations (authorization infrastructure), Users Platformization (decomposing the legacy monolith), and Settings & Account Management (Security Settings 2.0, account navigation redesign). * Own reliability and operational excellence for 8+ mission-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 services - maintaining 99.99% uptime, championing engineering quality, and acting as quarterback during high-severity incidents. * Represent the team to internal product groups and key partners in Security, Risk, Compliance, and Design - building alignment and ensuring seamless integration support. * Partner with Product and your EM to define strategic roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and translate complex constraints into simple, scalable platform solutions. * Champion engineering excellence - drive code and design reviews, set engineering standards, and build every capability to be composable and reusable across product lines (no bespoke, one-off integrations). * Accelerate internal customers by reducing new product team onboarding time to under 2 weeks and delivering excellent APIs, clear documentation, and strong integration support., Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. 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