Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth)

Coinbase Careers Page

98d • $253,895 - $298,700

About The Position

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our team and build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure infrastructure running in the cloud.

Requirements

• Ability to drive multi-quarter roadmaps with complex dependencies within and outside the Growth team.
• Strong track record of 'horizontal' technical leadership across a larger team or multiple small teams.
• Ability to drive quality and performance across complex systems at scale and understand what metrics and SLOs reflect product quality and how to move them.

Nice To Haves

• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, as this role spans both incentives experience and infrastructure pods, with potential to support all of Growth.
• Experience in consumer or growth-focused engineering is a plus.
• Experience working with ML directly or via APIs is a nice-to-have (understand different online and offline model evaluation techniques, and opportunities for ML to impact and improve core user experience).

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Head of Growth Engineering (Sr. Director of Eng), EMs, and Product Managers to improve incentives infrastructure, primitives and scale up our spend/profitability with high reliability and confidence.
• Build foundational systems and primitives to drive growth at Coinbase.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Target bonus
• Target equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees