About the role:

Coinbase is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges today, securing cash on FDIC-secured accounts and enabling users to securely connect and trade crypto via their bank account.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity Accounts team — the platform foundation that powers every user, organization, and account at Coinbase. Your team's services handle authentication, authorization, security settings, and account management for millions of customers across every Coinbase product. You'll manage engineers across three sub-teams (Foundations, Users Platformization, and Settings & Account Management) and represent the team to 20+ internal product groups and key partners in Security, Risk, Compliance, and Design.

Responsibilities:

📍Lead and grow a team of engineers across backend, frontend, and site reliability — building a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and career development. 📍Drive roadmap execution across three focused sub-teams: Foundations (authorization infrastructure), Users Platformization (decomposing the legacy monolith), and Settings & Account Management (Security Settings 2.0, account navigation redesign). 📍Own reliability and operational excellence for 8+ mission-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 services — maintaining 99.99% uptime, championing engineering quality, and acting as quarterback during high-severity incidents. 📍Represent the team to internal product groups and key partners in Security, Risk, Compliance, and Design — building alignment and ensuring seamless integration support. 📍Partner with Product and your Tech Lead to define strategic roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and translate complex constraints into simple, scalable platform solutions. 📍Champion engineering excellence — drive code and design reviews, set engineering standards, and build every capability to be composable and reusable across product lines. 📍Accelerate internal customers by reducing new product team onboarding time to under 2 weeks and delivering excellent APIs, clear documentation, and strong integration support.

Requirements:

📍7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers. 📍Proven track record shipping large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users in production. 📍Technical fluency in coding, system design, API architecture, and reliability tradeoffs — able to be hands-on when needed. 📍Strong communicator who writes clearly, builds organisational alignment, and can represent the team effectively to senior leadership and cross-functional partners. 📍Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams through hiring, developing, and promoting talent. 📍Demonstrated ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in daily workflows with human-in-the-loop practices.

Nice-to-have: 📍Experience in identity, authentication, authorization, or account management systems. 📍Prior experience leading a Platform team or similar domain with high internal customer dependency. 📍Familiarity with our stack: Go, gRPC, React, SpiceDB, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Datadog. 📍Background building financial, high-reliability, or security systems.

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