Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Platform

Remote from: USA
Salary, yearly, USD: 253,895
Department: Software Engineering
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 8 Jul 2025
Apply before: 8 Aug 2025
Experience level: Senior
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We're building an open financial system for the world.

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Actively Hiring

We’re looking to hire Senior Staff Software Engineers to join our Platform Product Group. The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience.

What you’ll be doing:

Architect and develop distributed systems
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

What we look for in you:

12+ years of experience in software engineering
You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
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 10 to 100s of engineers)
You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems

Job #: GPBE07US

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range: $253,895—$298,700 USD

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