Partner with product, legal, and compliance to translate a rapidly changing regulatory landscape into designs that hold up to scrutiny.
Lead SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates with engineers across the industry to cut member onboarding from weeks to days.
Establish network reliability practices and member-facing monitoring without exposing sensitive customer data.
Raise the engineering bar by writing critical code, leading design reviews and incident retrospectives, and mentoring engineers.
Required Skills and Experience
Deep understanding of distributed systems, including idempotency, retries, ordering, and partial failure across independently operated services.
Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams on multi-quarter projects with measurable outcomes.
Experience owning production architecture for backend services: API design, asynchronous processing, data modeling, security, and observability.
Ability to turn ambiguous, multi-stakeholder problems into a technical strategy and explain trade-offs to technical and nontechnical partners.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus)
$218,025—$256,000 USD
Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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