Coinbase

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Coinbase

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $253,895 - $298,700 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Spearhead the technical design and implementation of major initiatives across the Consumer organization
  • Ensure a performant, low-latency trading experience for users globally
  • Review and simplify the technical architecture across Trading and Financial Services
  • Reduce dependency on shared platform teams by building robust, domain-specific solutions
  • Conduct technical risk assessments and increase the engineering rigor of our systems
  • Define the SLOs and metrics that truly reflect product quality and drive the initiatives required to improve them
  • Exert technical leadership across large teams and multiple pods
  • Actively recruit and assess engineers with 'Trader DNA'

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale backend distributed systems
  • Experience building crypto-native systems or extensive background in TradFi, including Market Making, Market Structure, or Trading Systems (specifically Futures, Options, and Equities)
  • Ability to take abstract business goals and translate them into concrete, executed technical roadmaps
  • Proven ability to lead other senior ICs and influence large projects
  • Strong cross-functional partnership skills
Benefits
  • health insurance
  • retirement plans
  • paid time off
  • flexible work arrangements
  • professional development
  • bonuses
  • stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringbackend systemstechnical designtechnical architecturerisk assessmentsSLOsmetricstrading systemscrypto-native systemslarge-scale systems
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcross-functional partnershipinfluencerecruitmentassessmentcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingexecution