Coinbase
We're building an open financial system for the world.
Senior Software Engineer – Platform, Account Platform
Location
United States
Posted
10 hours ago
Salary
$186.1K - $218.9K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishDockerDynamo DBMongo DBPostgre SQLReactRubyRuby ON RailsGo
Job Description
• 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.
Job Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
- paid time off
- flexible work arrangements