Staff Software Engineer, Backend - 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. 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. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you’d be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack.

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
Job #: GPBE06US



Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Pay Range:
$211,650—$249,000 USD