Staff Software Engineer, Security Platform Remote, Full Time NEW

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn’t a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you’re ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for “good enough,” you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Coinbase stores a large amount of digital currency making us a top tier target on the internet. Security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale. Security Platform Engineering ( SPE ) team is building platform capabilities for a variety of security use cases critical for security, compliance and privacy at Coinbase. Some of the key functional areas we are developing capabilities for are secrets and key management, identity access and management, onchain security, policy and risk management, vulnerabilities management enabling our product, compliance, security and services teams to protect Coinbase and our customers.

What you’ll do:

Architect and develop platform for security platform engineering org
Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang / Java
Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
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. Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects. Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.
Required Skills and Experience:

You have at least 8+ 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.
You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID:  P78176

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):: ₹9,424,500 INR – ₹9,424,500 INR

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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