Software Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with deep expertise in building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Demonstrated track record of horizontal technical leadership across multiple engineering teams — influencing architecture, quality, and delivery without direct authority.
• Proven ability to architect systems that handle high-frequency, low-latency workloads with stringent reliability requirements.
• Experience collaborating with senior engineering and product leaders to drive technical direction and make high-stakes trade-offs.
• Passion for building products and systems that deliver measurable impact to the business — with a strong bias toward fast iteration and results orientation.
• Utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and development of scalable backend services powering the next generation of crypto products — including risk platform, notifications platform, and dynamic presentation systems.
• Build and scale user-facing experiences across the full Coinbase product journey — from SEO and logged-out discovery through onboarding, trading, and investing — touching web, mobile, backend, data, and ML.
• Drive technical quality and performance across complex systems at scale — defining the right metrics and SLOs, and holding the bar on reliability and latency for real-time applications.
• Lead horizontal technical direction across multiple engineering teams — collaborating with leaders across the company to influence architecture decisions and unblock high-impact initiatives.
• Shape scalable, reusable solutions that can be leveraged across Coinbase — building the growth engine infrastructure that enables the team to iterate faster and compound results.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)