Coinbase

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Consumer/Trading

Coinbase

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $246,500 - $290,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsGoOpen Source

About the role

  • Coinbase mission: increase economic freedom in the world by building onchain financial infrastructure.
  • Build the fastest, easiest, and most trusted crypto trading platform globally as part of the Consumer Trading team.
  • Drive the technical vision and execution of complex, multi-quarter projects across multiple engineering teams.
  • Architect and build mission-critical trading systems, including order management, execution engines, and reliability infrastructure.
  • Partner with PM, Design, and other functions to align product strategy with long-term technical bets.
  • Deeply understand and influence our trading stack and product roadmap.
  • Mentor and coach IC6s and below; help grow the next generation of trading and infrastructure leaders.
  • Elevate engineering quality through design review, code review, and promoting best practices.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping large-scale distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in trading systems (traditional or crypto), with hands-on experience in areas like order management, execution algorithms, market data, or risk management.
  • You are customer-obsessed and bring strong product intuition to technical decision-making.
  • Proven ability to lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong mentoring skills with a passion for leveling up teammates.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous environments with high stakes and high velocity.
  • High bar for quality, correctness, and operational excellence.
  • Nice to haves: experience building complicated trading systems; prior experience in financial markets (equities, FX, or crypto); familiarity with regulated environments and designing for compliance and auditability; experience with Go or other performant backend languages; contributions to open source or trading protocols; crypto-forward experience (Ethereum, ENS, dApps).