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# Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Des Moines, IA, 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 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3336328126&tx=YT101TYI&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## 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.


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