Software Engineer – Back-end
Coder
Distributed SystemsGoOpen Source
Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Developer, Foundations
Coinbase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $186,065 - $218,900 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSDistributed SystemsGoKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLPostgresPythonRabbitMQRedisRust
About the role
- Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing backend services in a microservices/distributed architecture
- Define internal and customer-facing APIs that serve as the building blocks for CDP
- Author technical design documents (TDDs), providing technical leadership and driving clarity across complex projects
- Lead end-to-end delivery of projects through implementation, deployment, and monitoring
- Improve and maintain operational excellence standards across the team, proactively addressing technical debt and driving improvements in reliability and observability
- Participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, lead incident response, and foster a team-wide environment that welcomes constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development
- Expertise in languages such as Golang (preferred), C, Rust or Python
- Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven architectures
- Comprehensive knowledge of RESTful API design principles and experience with API development, integration and authentication protocols like OAuth and JWT
- Familiarity with AWS and containerization using Kubernetes
- Understanding of web security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
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Hard skills
backend software developmentGolangCRustPythonPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRESTful API designKubernetes
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationtechnical leadershipconstructive feedbackproblem-solvingproject deliveryoperational excellencereliability improvementobservabilitycode quality
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Software Engineering
