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# Senior Software Engineer (Platform- Identity)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Lincoln, NE, 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:** June 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g5t5qx

## 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


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