Senior Software Engineer, Backend - (Platform - Identity)

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At Coinbase, our mission is toincrease economic freedom around the world (https://blog.coinbase.com/our-mission-strategy-and-culture-18a92a3bb0fa) , and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in aculture (https://blog.coinbase.com/culture-at-coinbase-f0e1c2a99aff) like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to ourmission-focused approach (https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804) to our work. Finally, we seek people who are excited to learn about and live crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.

Ready to #LiveCrypto? Who you are:

• You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.

• You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0.

• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.

• You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.

• You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.

• You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.

The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure. We are looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our Identity team within our Platform Product Group.

The Core Identity team at Coinbase has a critical responsibility as the identity provider service for the entire organization.This team operates at T0 level and handles essential tasks such as managing user data, user grouping, authorization, and user registration services across all Coinbase platforms.As part of the Identity organization, you will help build a unified, trusted, and secure platform for customer identity, access, and authorization for every Coinbase product and the broader web3 ecosystem. Coinbase is the market-leading crypto platform. Our customers can seamlessly and securely interact with Coinbase’s products and the broader web3 ecosystem.

Identity is a critical and uniquely challenging part of helping Coinbase succeed in creating an open financial system for the world. For web3 to thrive, we need to deliver the security of Finance 1.0 and the ease-of-access of web2. Walking the tightrope between usability and security critical to the success of Coinbase’s expanding product suite and to unlocking access to the web3 ecosystem for the next 1B+ users.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.

• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.

• Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.

• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.

• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.

• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.

• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).

• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.

• You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)

• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.

• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.

• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.

PID - P53363

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