Senior Systems Engineer, Coinbase

• A successful candidate will have demonstrated previous success in similar role(s) in rapidly growing, security-first environments
• The right person is passionate about secure access, automation, and managing modern cloud identity providers
• 5+ years of experience building, iterating upon, and maintaining corporate IAM systems
• Deep domain-knowledge with prominent cloud identity provider(s): Okta, Duo, Google Workspace, Entra ID, Ping, etc
• Demonstrated success implementing and managing tooling that solves problems related to: identity lifecycle and provisioning, SSO, MFA, ABAC, RBAC, directory services, zero trust networking, PAM, PIM, and secrets management
• Strong understanding of security concepts, particularly how they apply to identity management
• Familiarity with a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc.)
• Experience using and managing AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments
• Clear communication—demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts simply
• Self starter—possess a continuous learning mindset
• Demonstrate critical thinking under pressure

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced system engineer (SE) to join the IT Operations Corporate Engineering team to build and scale our workforce identity and access management tooling and processes
• Partner across Coinbase to design, implement, and maintain performant, reliable, and secure identity systems
• Provide corporate IAM tooling subject matter expertise to adjacent IT, Security, and Engineering teams
• Implement automation tooling and scripts to eliminate manual, repetitive tasks and reduce inefficiencies in system operations
• Participate in testing and implementing changes
• Create and update comprehensive documentation and runbooks that detail system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting steps across system lifecycle
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and blameless retrospectives
• Define metrics and bolster monitoring/observability across corporate IAM systems
• Participate in regular on-call rotation to ensure 24x7 uptime for critical systems