Software Engineer, Security Platform
Coinbase · Posted Aug 28
Cryptocurrency exchange, digital wallet, custody, and blockchain infrastructure services
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About the role
Coinbase's Security Platform Engineering (SPE) team builds platform capabilities for security, compliance, and privacy use cases, including secrets and key management, identity and access management, onchain security, policy and risk management, and vulnerability management. This Software Engineer role will architect and develop the platform, build new services using Golang/Java, and design scalable systems to help protect Coinbase and its customers.
What you will 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- You have at least 3+ 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.
Benefits and support
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
About Coinbase
Coinbase is a leading financial technology company that operates a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital assets. Serving retail consumers, institutional investors, and developers worldwide, the company provides comprehensive exchange capabilities, institutional custody services, and scalable blockchain infrastructure like the Base network. Its mission is to increase economic freedom around the world by building the foundational financial rails for the cryptoeconomy.
- Industry
- Cryptocurrency
- Company size
- 4300+ employees
- Founded
- June 2012
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $547M raised
- 2025-12-19Post IPO Equity$2.6B
- 2021-08-13Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2021-05-17Post IPO$1.25B
- 2020-07-01Series U$75M
- 2018-10-01Series E$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
President and Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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