Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer to build the future of finance with a focus on backend systems and cloud technology.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase focuses on developing new backend services to address critical business needs, utilizing Golang and modern cloud technologies. Candidates should have a strong background in building and maintaining scalable production systems, with at least five years of experience in software engineering. This position is ideal for those who thrive in fast-paced environments and have a passion for creating innovative financial solutions. Coinbase emphasizes collaboration across teams, fostering a culture of high standards and continuous improvement.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 5 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 163 other open roles including Strategic Program Lead, Supervisor, Customer Success Team, Staff Applied Data Scientist, Pricing.
- 470 active Docker roles on Joblaze right now.
- 169 active Golang roles on Joblaze right now.
- Typical Docker salary we track runs $125,000–$186,065 (median $152,963, across 254 roles).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in United States.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Golang, Docker.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Coinbase is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our team to build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud.
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What you'll be doing:
- 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.
What we look for in you:
- 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.
Nice to haves:
- 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.
Job #:
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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