Staff Software Engineer (Policies Platform - Identity) at Coinbase — Remote North America

Staff Software Engineer (Policies Platform - Identity) at Coinbase — Remote North America | RemoteJobs

Own the technical strategy and architecture for the Policies Platform — including the AI-native policy authoring system, Policy Framework v2, edge authorization, and the self-serve developer experience.

Define and drive the technical roadmap, making deliberate tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and long-term scalability as the platform expands to support new Coinbase products and international regulatory requirements.

Lead the most ambiguous, highest-risk initiatives on the team — including AI-powered impact simulation before policy changes ship, AI chatbot for compliance self-service, and embedding authorization into API gateway-level signed tokens.

Secure cross-team alignment and commitment — working with 20+ dependent domain teams, regulatory/compliance stakeholders, and engineering leadership to drive adoption of new platform standards and patterns.

Define engineering processes and quality practices — from code review standards for policy-as-code, to CI/CD pipeline requirements for automated load and regression testing.

Maintain high technical output while simultaneously elevating the capabilities of the broader team — you lead by doing, not just advising.

Contribute to org-wide initiatives including OKR planning, technical prioritization, and long-term platform strategy in partnership with engineering leadership.

What we look for in you:

8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of architecting and delivering systems at scale — high-throughput, high-availability services serving millions of requests in production.

Proven experience leading AI/LLM product development — building AI agents, code generation systems, or developer-facing AI tooling in production environments.

Strong command of Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, and service mesh architectures.

Ability to drive technical clarity in ambiguous, high-stakes situations — you can take a vague problem ("compliance teams can't self-serve"), define the right solution space, and execute it to completion.

A history of influencing across organizational boundaries — getting buy-in from skeptical stakeholders, aligning competing priorities, and building durable cross-team partnerships.

Excellent written and verbal communication — you produce technical design documents that build organizational confidence and create shared understanding.

Remote-friendly with on-site presence at either the San Francisco or New York City office approximately once per week for architecture reviews, stakeholder meetings, and team offsites

Nice to haves

Expertise in authorization and policy systems (OPA, Cedar, Zanzibar-inspired systems, or equivalent) — or equivalent infrastructure platform expertise with willingness to develop deep policy domain knowledge.

Experience building AI-native developer platforms.

Familiarity with regulatory compliance engineering (financial services, KYC/AML, MiCA, or equivalent).

Background in policy-as-code, GitOps, or automation at scale.

Prior experience in open source policy or authorization ecosystems (OPA, OpenFGA, Casbin).

Experience defining platform adoption strategies — including self-serve onboarding, documentation, and developer evangelism.

Job #: P76360

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Staff Software Engineer (Policies Platform - Identity)

What we look for in you:

Nice to haves

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