Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not specified
• Employment Type: Not specified - Likely Full-time
• Job Type: Senior Staff Software Engineer
• Salary: $253,895 - $298,700 USD (Target Annual Salary - Pay Transparency Notice)

The Platform Product Group's mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience.

Requirements

• Experience: 12+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Architectural Experience: Experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Passion: Passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop distributed systems.
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with technical expertise.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc).
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in a company that has experienced rapid growth (from 10 to 100s of engineers).
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres.
• Experience building financial, high reliability or security systems.

Application Instructions

• Job #: GPBE07US
• Instructions not provided - Contact Coinbase for application details

Company Information

• Coinbase is building the future of financial infrastructure.
• Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full-time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).