Coinbase · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Crypto Data Foundations)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$181K/yr - $212K/yr
5+ years expCoinbase is a company on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, focusing on building an onchain platform for the future global financial system. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Crypto Data Foundation - Core team, responsible for providing technical structure, managing project priorities, mentoring team members, and designing foundational infrastructure components. The role requires strong expertise in distributed systems and a passion for crypto technology.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in software engineering
Very strong in distributed systems or data systems. If you are experienced with Crypto, it's a big plus!
You've experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
You're passionate about building an indexing platform that brings the Web3 and Web2 world together
Preferred
Experience designing and developing distributed systems
You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
You've worked with Golang, Kafka, Redis, S3, Clickhouse, MongoDB
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
Benefits
Target bonus
Target equity
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Company
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.46BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementDFJ GrowthTiger Global Management
2025-12-19Post Ipo Equity· $4.2M
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
Chief Financial Officer
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