Engineering Manager – Institutional, Derivatives
Coinbase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $218,025 - $256,500 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Distributed Systems
About the role
- Lead the engineering teams responsible for building the mission critical systems powering institutional products that shape the crypto landscape.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap. Break down complex projects into smaller pieces and lead the iterative design and implementation process.
- Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality and operational excellence. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of complex, distributed systems at scale.
- Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth.
- Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products.
- Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
- At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
- An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
- Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
- You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
- Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role.
- Experience in trading
- Experience in derivatives (futures, perps, options, prediction markets)
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringengineering managementdistributed systemsmulti-tenanted systemscode reviewtechnical documentationbug triagingincident managementtroubleshooting
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationstrategic thinkingcoachingcommunicationorganizational skills