Coinbase2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer (Platform - Access & Authorization)

RUB 15,505–18,242per month · before tax
MARKET
13,534median for this role
Tech Lead / Team Lead · 166 jobs with disclosed pay
5,250half of the offers: 9,771–18,1061.2 млн
At market · above 64% of offers
Remote - USA

Responsibilities

  • 01Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of capabilities across authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.
  • 02Build 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.
  • 03Lead technical designs for complex initiatives such as signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication, and mobile OAuth.
  • 04Partner with product, security, fraud, and infrastructure teams to balance customer conversion, account protection, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints.
  • 05Simplify integration patterns and build self-service tooling that enables product teams to adopt access and authorization capabilities safely at scale.
  • 06Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Requirements

  • 015+ 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.
  • 02Demonstrated 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).
  • 03Proficiency 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.
  • 04Track 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.
  • 05Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

What we offer

  • 01Remote-first, but not remote-only company; quarterly in-person working sessions called 'surges'.
  • 02Annual base salary range: $186,065 — $218,900 USD (excluding equity and bonus).
  • 03Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
  • 04Benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k).
  • 05Application limit: maximum of 3 applications within a 6‑month period.
  • 06Equal Opportunity Employer with accommodations for disabilities.