Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform - IAM
Coinbase · Remote - USA
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## Coinbase — Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead), Platform — IAM Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? Coinbase is remote-first (remote-only not required) and brings teams together quarterly for in-person “surges.” Coinbase is hiring a **Senior Staff Software Engineer (Uber Tech Lead)** for **Identity & Access Management (IAM)** within **Platform**. You’ll own the technical strategy that unifies **human, AI agent, service, and workload identity** into one coherent platform. IAM is a distributed problem across **700+ internal systems**, so the platform must make access **consistent, visible, provable, and efficient** across every identity type. ### What you’ll do - Own the **multi-year technical strategy** for IAM end to end, including architecture that unifies **workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity** under a common model with shared primitives for **authentication, authorization, provisioning, and governance**. - Drive architecture decisions across multiple pods and teams you don’t manage—establishing **standards, review bars, and integration contracts** others build against. - Build the **adoption strategy** for **700+ systems**, including sequencing, migration paths, and **build-vs-buy** decisions. - Partner with **Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product engineering leadership** to translate audit/regulatory requirements (**UAR, SOX, SOC 2**) into **automated controls** and **self-generating evidence**. - Lead the **data model and tooling** to answer “**who has access to what, and why**,” reducing standing privilege while making the secure path the fast path. - Grow the technical bench by mentoring **staff and senior engineers** and raising the org’s depth in identity as a domain. ### Required Skills and Experience - **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 many consuming teams. - Deep IAM expertise across more than one domain (e.g., workforce identity, authorization, access lifecycle, non-human identity), including substantive experience in **service/workload identity** (service-to-service auth, workload identity federation, or machine credential management at scale). - **Production Go** experience and distributed systems design on **AWS**, with fluency in identity protocols/standards: **OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM**, and workload identity patterns. - Proven influence without authority at senior levels—changed technical direction across teams/orgs and secured alignment on ambiguous, org-wide access-risk problems. - Ability to translate audit/regulatory requirements into **automated technical controls**, with clear written/verbal communication for executive audiences. - Uses **generative AI responsibly**, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. ### Pay Transparency (Base Salary) - **$253,895 — $298,700 USD** (excluding equity and bonus) ### Additional Notes - **Application limit:** Maximum of **3 applications within a 6-month period**. - **Equal Opportunity Employer:** Coinbase considers qualified applicants regardless of protected status; applicants with criminal histories are considered consistent with applicable laws. - **US Applicants:** View **Employee Rights**, **Know Your Rights**, and **E-Verify** notice of particip
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