The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Own the multi-year technical strategy for IAM end to end, including the: architecture that unifies workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity under a common model with shared primitives for authentication, authorization, provisioning, and governance.
Drive architecture decisions across multiple pods and teams you don't manage: - establishing the standards, review bars, and integration contracts the rest of engineering builds against.
Build the adoption strategy for 700+ systems, including sequencing, migration: paths, and build-vs-buy decisions that determine what we own versus integrate.
Partner with Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product: engineering leadership to translate audit and regulatory requirements (UAR, SOX, SOC 2) into automated controls and self-generating evidence.
Lead the data model and tooling that answer "who has access to what, and why": across a heterogeneous estate, reducing standing privilege while making the secure path the fast path.
Grow the technical bench by mentoring staff and senior engineers and raising: the org's depth in identity as a domain.
What they're looking for
- + years of software engineering experience, including a track record as the: most senior technical leader on a platform spanning multiple teams with multi-year architecture driven to adoption across dozens of consuming teams.
- Deep IAM expertise across more than one domain (workforce identity,: authorization, access lifecycle, or non-human identity) with substantive experience in service or workload identity - service-to-service auth, workload identity federation, or machine credential management at scale.
- Production Go experience and distributed systems design on AWS, with fluency: in identity protocols and standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and workload identity patterns).
- Proven influence without authority at senior levels: you've changed the technical direction of teams and orgs outside your own and secured leadership alignment on ambiguous, org-wide access-risk problems.
