Engineering Manager (Platform - Identity)

About the role

The Engineering Manager will oversee the Identity Accounts team, which is crucial for managing user authentication and account management across Coinbase's platforms. This position focuses on maintaining operational excellence and ensuring the reliability of services that support millions of users.

In this role, the manager will drive team growth, execute roadmaps, and collaborate with various internal groups to ensure seamless integration of services. Success will be measured by the team's ability to maintain high uptime, deliver quality APIs, and support internal customers effectively.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $218,025 to $256,500 USD.

Skills that matter here

• Go: This role requires technical fluency in Go for building and maintaining backend services.
• gRPC: gRPC is utilized for efficient communication between services in the platform.
• React: React is used in the frontend components that interface with users.
• Kubernetes: Kubernetes is essential for managing containerized applications in the cloud.
• PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL is used for data management within the platform's services.
• Kafka: Kafka supports real-time data streaming and processing for the platform.

Who this role suits

• Has over 7 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a management role.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills and the ability to align teams with organizational goals.
• Possesses a hands-on approach to coding and system design, capable of leading technical incidents.
• Values continuous learning and the integration of AI tools in engineering workflows.

From the employer

What you'll be doing:

• 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 (no bespoke, one-off integrations).
• Accelerate internal customers by reducing new product team onboarding time to under 2 weeks and delivering excellent APIs, clear documentation, and strong integration support.

What we look for in you:

• 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 (writing/reviewing code, leading incidents, triaging bugs).
• Strong communicator who writes clearly, builds organizational 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.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to haves:

• 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.

What we offer:

• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025 - $256,500 USD.