Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

Architect and develop platform for all LLM use-cases in Coinbase
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
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
Hands-on with coding
Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.
Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.
Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors


What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

8+ years of experience in software engineering
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.