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Coinbase · 10 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Staking)

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom globally and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Institutional Staking Engineering team. This role involves building and maintaining systems to manage billions of dollars in staked digital assets, ensuring the security and efficiency of their crypto platform.

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Responsibilities

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
Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them
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

Qualification

GolangBlockchain technologyService oriented architectureMicroservicesCloud technologyHigh quality codeTeam collaborationProblem solving

Required

You have at least 5 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
You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Preferred

You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks
You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB
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

Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))

Company

Coinbase

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Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.

H1B Sponsorship

Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (154)
2024 (92)
2023 (96)
2022 (284)
2021 (183)
2020 (66)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$4.46B
Key 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

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Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
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Alesia Haas
Chief Financial Officer
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