8 hours ago
Base Salary
$218k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture and design decisions for distributed crypto and fiat fund movement systems.
- Lead complex cross-team engineering initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product engineering teams.
- Drive backend infrastructure evolution, scalability improvements, and proactive resolution of scaling bottlenecks.
- Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns to improve quality and reduce operational risk.
- Mentor engineers across levels on system design, distributed systems, and production service development.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep backend programming expertise in one or more of Go, Ruby, Python, or Java.
- Experience designing highly available, high-throughput systems where correctness is critical.
- Track record delivering and scaling financial systems, fund movement platforms, or similarly high-reliability systems with transaction integrity, idempotency, and auditability requirements.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and translating distributed systems problems into architectural decisions and roadmaps.
- 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.
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.