Software Engineer, Security Platform

As a Software Engineer on the Security Platform team at Coinbase, you architect and develop platform capabilities for security, compliance, and privacy use cases across the organization. You work on critical functional areas including secrets and key management, identity and access management, on-chain security, policy and risk management, and vulnerabilities management. Your work enables product, compliance, security, and services teams to protect Coinbase and its customers.

What you'll do

• Architect and develop platforms for the Security Platform Engineering organization
• 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 or Java
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices
• Manage individual project 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 backend systems and the teams running them
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a tangible quarterly roadmap
• Write high quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs, debug complex technical problems, and make systems and products easier to deploy, own, operate, and diagnose
• Review feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects, owning the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs

What you bring

• At least 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services with knowledge of service-oriented architecture
• Ability to write high quality, well-tested code that meets customer needs
• Strong technical skills in system design and coding
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices
• Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of 4,408,400 INR
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, and vision
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building an open financial system by increasing economic freedom. The company stores a large amount of digital currency and prioritizes security as a core differentiator. Coinbase operates as a remote-first organization with a quarterly in-person working model.