2 months ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own projects from scoping and system design through implementation, rollout, and production validation.
- Design and build reliable, low-latency systems serving millions of users, including caching, upstream service optimization, and connection management.
- Build and improve the GraphQL API framework and tooling used by hundreds of engineers.
- Own service-level objectives, observability, incident response, and operational toil reduction for critical services.
- Partner with product engineering teams on API schemas and service launches.
- Set technical standards through code and design reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to architectural direction.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience owning complex, production-grade distributed systems.
- Deep proficiency in backend languages such as Go or Java, with experience designing microservices, API platforms, and high-availability systems.
- Experience delivering projects end to end across scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience designing clean APIs and abstractions adopted by multiple teams and handling on-call and incident response across multi-service architectures.
- Ability to align technical decisions with frontend engineers, product teams, platform consumers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- 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.
About Coinbase
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.