Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you’d be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack.

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. There are many teams that make up the Platform Product Group including Product Foundations (e.g. FinHub, Identity, Risk), Infrastructure, Blockchain Platform, and Machine Learning.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to Haves

• Experience with rapid growth in a company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• Experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
• Experience building financial, high reliability or security systems

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 your 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

Application Instructions

• Job #: GPBE06US
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