Coinbase

Software Engineer, Data Layer

Coinbase
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3 hours ago
Remote, SingaporeMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own projects end to end from scoping and system design through implementation, rollout, and production validation.
  • Design and build reliable, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users, including caching, upstream optimization, and connection management.
  • Build and improve GraphQL API frameworks and tooling used by hundreds of engineers.
  • Own SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational toil reduction for critical services.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to design API schemas, support launches, and evolve the platform.
  • Set technical direction through code and design reviews, mentorship, and architectural contributions.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional engineering experience owning complex, production-grade distributed systems.
  • Deep proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Java, or similar, with experience designing microservices, API platforms, and high-availability systems.
  • Experience delivering projects end to end across architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration in reliability- and performance-critical environments.
  • Experience designing clean APIs and abstractions adopted by multiple teams, with comfort handling on-call and incident response across multi-service architectures.
  • Ability to align technical decisions with frontend engineers, product teams, and platform consumers.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, with potential equity and bonus eligibility.

Tech Stack

GoGraphQLJava

Categories

Coinbase

About Coinbase

1,001-5,000 employees

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase's full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.

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