2 days ago
Base Salary
$218k - $256k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the short- and long-term strategic vision for the TRUST network and sequence it into an engineering roadmap with Product.
- Lead architecture for network services, protocols, and integration patterns supporting member discovery, address registration, counterparty identification, and secure data exchange.
- Partner with product, legal, and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into technically robust designs.
- Lead SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates to accelerate member onboarding.
- Establish network reliability practices and member-facing monitoring while protecting sensitive customer data.
- Write critical production code, lead design reviews and incident retrospectives, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, including idempotency, retries, ordering, and partial failure across independently operated services.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams on multi-quarter projects with measurable outcomes.
- Experience owning production backend architecture, including API design, asynchronous processing, data modeling, security, and observability.
- Ability to turn ambiguous, multi-stakeholder problems into technical strategy and communicate trade-offs to technical and nontechnical partners.
- 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.”
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
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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.