# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $186k – $219k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Redis, DynamoDB, Oauth 2.0, Openid Connect, Jwt, Pkce, Authentication, Authorization, Distributed Systems, SLOs, Generative AI
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Designs and operates foundational authentication and authorization services across Coinbase products and partner integrations. The role requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong Go or systems-language skills, and expertise in secure APIs, identity standards, and distributed systems operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate capabilities across authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.
- Build secure, low-latency Go and gRPC services for web, mobile, API, and partner experiences.
- Lead technical designs for 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 for safe adoption at scale.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and on-call participation.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems-oriented language.
- Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput distributed services in production.
- Experience designing secure APIs and working with authentication, authorization, session management, trust boundaries, and token handling.
- Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, PKCE, or related standards.
- Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Redis or DynamoDB.
- Operational experience with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs.
- Track record of delivering complex cross-functional projects from technical design through production rollout.
- Clear written and verbal communication.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $186,065–$218,900 USD, excluding equity and bonus.
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

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