Coinbase · 2 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Datastores)
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. They are seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Datastores team, responsible for designing, implementing, and operating distributed database technologies critical to the company's operations.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Design, implement and operate Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached)
Develop the future of our database systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
Use your experience to guide other senior engineers and leadership on the right technical choices while anticipating the business’s needs, and work with various vendors in the database/storage space
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support
Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies in databases to continuously enhance our systems and processes
Qualification
Required
You have at least 5 years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
You have in-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment
You have experience in cloud distributed databases (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached)
You have a solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning and reliability
You have backend service and tool development experience in Golang, Java or Python
You have strong communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
You have experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and are interested in making systems highly available
You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
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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