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# Software Engineer, Access & Authorization

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Bioinformatics, Code Review, Data Stores, Amazon DynamoDB, Protocol Buffers, OAuth, Redis, Openid Connect, Session Management, Software Engineering, Backend, Grpc
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-platform-access-authorization-coinbase-9664090

## About the Role

* 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language, including building and operating reliable, high-throughput distributed services in production.
 * Demonstrated experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, PKCE, or related standards).
 * Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and data stores such as Redis or DynamoDB, with strong operational instincts using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs to run critical services.
 * Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects from technical design through production rollout, with clear written and verbal communication that aligns engineering, security, product, and infrastructure partners.
 * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Description

* Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of capabilities across authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.
 * Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services used across Coinbase's web, mobile, API, and partner experiences, with strong observability, failure testing, and measurable SLOs.
 * Lead technical designs for complex initiatives such as signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth.
 * Partner with product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams to balance customer conversion, account protection, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints.
 * Simplify integration patterns and build self-service tooling that enables product teams to adopt access and authorization capabilities safely at scale.
 * Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.


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