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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional -

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Code Coverage, Code Review, Relational Databases, Protocol Buffers, Salesforce.Com, Service-Oriented Architecture, Datadog, Backend, Production Code
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pmvy0lfini

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture.
 * Production experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
 * Demonstrated practice of writing well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code review habits.
 * Comfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
 * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Description

* Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning.
 * Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning so low-risk clients complete onboarding without an ops ticket.
 * Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data, including data quality, entity uniqueness, and Salesforce decoupling.
 * Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products including FCM, Hudson derivatives, and Prime Custody.
 * Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies, and consensus) so complex institutions can operate on Prime without opening a ticket.
 * Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.


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