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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer (Platform- Identity) - **Company:** Coinbase, Inc. - **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Quality, Amazon DynamoDB, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Ruby, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Backend, Docker, Golang - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/4F10F27DD60B442E8FDD949AB657C674/job/ ## About the Role * 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. ## Description The Identity org 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. What you'll be doing: * 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, 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. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. 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