8 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Golang and gRPC.
- Own social, asset discovery, and real-time notification experiences for Coinbase Advanced trading products.
- Lead experimentation and conversion-funnel optimization for key trading journeys.
- Make system design trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Champion engineering practices for design, coding, testing, documentation, monitoring, and alerting.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product vision into quarterly roadmaps and outcomes.
- Take ambiguous, multi-quarter projects from concept to production with minimal guidance.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- Significant experience with Golang and gRPC and with designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production systems.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable service architectures and make trade-offs in high-throughput environments.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, or similar cloud infrastructure tools.
- Working knowledge of event-driven architectures such as Kafka or MQ.
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, third-party API integrations, GraphQL, and ETL pipelines.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to execute ambiguous projects with minimal oversight.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), potential equity, and bonus eligibility are listed as part of the total compensation package.
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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.