Senior Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

Join Coinbase as a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead) for Identity & Access Management within the Platform team. You will own the technical strategy that unifies human, AI agent, service, and workload identity into one coherent platform. Your responsibilities will include setting architecture across multiple pods, driving adoption with hundreds of engineering teams, and acting as a senior technical voice for identity and access management at Coinbase. You will also partner with various teams to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated controls and self-generating evidence.

• Ownership of the multi-year technical strategy for Identity & Access Management (IAM) end to end, including architecture that unifies various identity types.
• Driving architecture decisions across multiple pods and teams, establishing standards, review bars, and integration contracts.
• Building the adoption strategy for 700+ systems, including sequencing, migration paths, and build-vs-buy decisions.

• Deep IAM expertise across more than one domain (workforce identity, authorization, access lifecycle, or non-human identity) with substantive experience in service or workload identity - service-to-service auth, workload identity federation, or machine credential management at scale
• Proven influence without authority at senior levels - you've changed the technical direction of teams and orgs outside your own and secured leadership alignment on ambiguous, org-wide access-risk problems
• Production Go experience and distributed systems design on AWS, with fluency in identity protocols and standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and workload identity patterns)
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including a track record as the most senior technical leader on a platform spanning multiple teams with multi-year architecture driven to adoption across dozens of consuming teams
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Ability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated technical controls, with clear written and verbal communication that frames complex identity problems for executive audiences