Engineering Manager – Institutional, Prime, Trade Interfaces

Coinbase

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $218,025 - $256,500 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Lead a team of 5-6 engineers and establish team mechanisms and norms for effective execution
Collaborate with cross-functional partners on product and operational strategies
Coordinate with QA to triage incoming issues and monitor/triage issues with downstream partners
Establish operating metrics and ensure they are met
Own product surface areas and features: Prime Public APIs, Prime Public FIX, Trading Router
Maintain highly resilient, fault-tolerant systems providing high uptime for trade placing, canceling orders, streaming market data, and reporting
Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Ops to deliver and operate multi-tenanted distributed systems at scale
Recruit and grow engineering talent; contribute to engineering quality and SLAs

Lead a team of 5-6 engineers
Build and manage full-stack engineering teams
Coach direct reports and support their career growth
Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership
Translate vision into quarterly roadmaps and break down complex projects
Be a thoughtful technical voice; aid in architectural decisions and foster high-quality code and engineering processes
Collaborate to ensure delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale
Work with talent organization to identify and recruit engineers
Contribute to processes that drive engineering quality and meet engineering SLAs
Experience owning product areas (e.g., Prime Public APIs, Prime Public FIX, Trading Router)
Nice to haves: managing backend-centric/fullstack teams; hands-on technical architecture experience; experience with highly distributed systems built for scale in cloud-centric environments