Staff Software Engineer, Backend

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team:

• We look for candidates who will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves.
• We expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work.
• We seek people who are excited to learn about and live crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture.

We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.

Who you are:

• You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.
• You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0.
• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener.
• You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too.
• You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines.
• You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you embrace being pushed out of your comfort zone.

We’re looking to hire Staff Software Engineers to join our Platform Product Group. The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architect and develop distributed systems
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

What we look for in you:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to haves:

• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems