Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance backend services for advanced trading products in a remote-first environment.
Posted by employer 16 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 hour ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
What you'll build
- Own the design and delivery of backend services
- Lead rapid experimentation and optimization of conversion funnels
- Drive accelerated time to market for new features
- Champion software engineering best practices
- Partner cross-functionally with engineers and product managers
Must have
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Significant experience in Golang and gRPC
- Proven track record designing scalable service architectures
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
Practical constraints
- Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on designing and delivering backend services that enhance the trading experience for Coinbase's global customers. Proficiency in Golang and gRPC is essential, along with experience in cloud infrastructure tools like AWS and Kubernetes. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in building scalable systems and a track record of managing complex projects with minimal oversight. The Advanced Trading team operates in a fast-paced environment, emphasizing collaboration across time zones to drive impactful outcomes.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page October 21, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Coinbase: Remote - USA.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 63% of 120 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $174,915 across 54 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 32.4% of 516 comparable senior backend roles in United States; NoSQL appears in 1.9% of 516 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $186,065–$218,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Datadog, Golang, GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes.
- 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.
Join the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend helping scale Coinbase Advanced trading products for customers around the globe. You'll own the design and delivery of social, asset discovery, and real-time notification experiences that drive awareness and engagement across a wide range of asset classes, taking complex projects from concept to production with minimal oversight.
What you'll do:
- Own the end-to-end design, development, and reliability of high-performance backend services using Golang and gRPC, enabling seamless trading experiences for customers worldwide.
- Lead rapid experimentation and optimization of conversion funnels for key trading journeys, using data to prioritize high-impact opportunities.
- Drive accelerated time to market for new features by making system design trade-offs across performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Champion software engineering best practices in design, coding, testing, documentation, monitoring, and alerting, raising the bar for the team.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and designers across multiple time zones to translate product vision into quarterly roadmaps and high-impact outcomes.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production systems, with significant experience in Golang and gRPC.
- Proven track record designing scalable service architectures and making system design trade-offs across performance, reliability, and maintainability in high-throughput environments.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, or similar cloud infrastructure tools, and working knowledge of event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ, or similar).
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, third-party API integrations, and modern development practices including GraphQL and ETL pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, multi-quarter projects from concept to production with minimal guidance and sound technical judgment.
- 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)).
- 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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