2 months ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate.
- Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity and attestation evidence, and human judgment into merge decisions.
- Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI systems, and Coinbase policy systems.
- Migrate repositories from legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate using safe rollouts, observable decisions, and rollback paths.
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to create usable developer workflows.
- Measure human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience.
- Strong backend and distributed-systems experience in Go or a comparable language.
- Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms.
- Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane.
- Strong security and authorization judgment.
- Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and operational ownership.
- Hands-on ability to use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience with Go, GitHub integrations, AWS, Kubernetes, AI-assisted development, or policy-as-code is helpful.
Benefits
- Remote-first but not fully remote, with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), equity eligibility, and bonus eligibility are available as part of total compensation.
Tech Stack
About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.