Coinbase is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Remote, USA) to own services that take institutional clients from application to first trade — onboarding, KYC refresh, auto-provisioning, and the Organizations Service. Core stack: Go, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional) (Remote - USA). This is an Engineering role listed on the official Coinbase careers site.
Key Responsibilities
Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning.
Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning.
Lead design and implementation of the Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data.
Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products.
Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies, and consensus) for complex institutions on Prime.
Requirements
5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture.
Production experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
A practice of writing well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code review habits.
Comfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency and quality.