Senior Systems Engineer - Identity Platform

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? Coinbase is building an emerging onchain platform and needs an experienced system engineer to help scale our workforce identity and access management tooling.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote‑first, this position requires in‑person participation throughout the year. Team and company‑wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

• Partner across Coinbase to design, implement, and maintain performant, reliable, and secure identity systems
• Provide corporate IAM tooling subject‑matter expertise to adjacent IT, Security, and Engineering teams
• Implement automation tooling and scripts to eliminate manual, repetitive tasks and reduce inefficiencies in system operations
• Participate in testing and implementing changes
• Create and update comprehensive documentation and runbooks that detail system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting steps across the system lifecycle
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root‑cause analysis, and blameless retrospectives
• Define metrics and bolster monitoring/observability across corporate IAM systems
• Participate in regular on‑call rotation to ensure 24x7 uptime for critical systems

• 5+ years of experience building, iterating upon, and maintaining corporate IAM systems
• Deep domain knowledge with prominent cloud identity provider(s):
  Okta, Duo, Google Workspace, Entra , Ping, etc.
• Demonstrated success implementing and managing tooling that solves problems related to identity lifecycle and provisioning, SSO, MFA, ABAC, RBAC, directory services, zero‑trust networking, PAM, PIM, and secrets management
• Strong understanding of security concepts, particularly how they apply to identity management
• Familiarity with a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc.)
• Experience using and managing AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments
• Clear communication—demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts simply
• Self‑starter—possess a continuous learning mindset
• Demonstrate critical thinking under pressure

• Experience configuring and implementing modern open‑source tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience in a fast‑paced, high‑growth company

Pay Range: $167,280—$196,800 USD

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.