Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone.

We’re looking to hire Staff Software Engineers to join our Platform Product Group.

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.

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
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below.

Pay Range:

$217,800—$217,800 CAD