Senior Backend Software Engineer - Foundations

Overview

Are you ready to explore your full potential? At Coinbase, we are driven by a mission to enhance economic freedom globally. This ambitious journey requires our best efforts as we construct an innovative onchain platform to reshape the financial system.

We are seeking a unique candidate who is passionate about our mission and recognizes the transformative power of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. If you are eager to make a significant impact and thrive under pressure while collaborating with outstanding colleagues, this is the place for you. We want a team member who embraces challenges, seeks out difficult problems, and actively pursues growth.

Our work environment is intense and may not suit everyone. However, if you're excited to build the future alongside professionals who excel at what they do and expect the same from you, there's no better opportunity to seize.

Although many positions at Coinbase are remote-first, we value in-person collaboration throughout the year. We hold team and company-wide offsite events multiple times a year to encourage teamwork and alignment, and attendance is highly supported.

The CDP Foundations team is responsible for the essential data models and primitives that support the Coinbase Developer Platform. We develop the foundational layer that defines organizational structures, user and customer representations, fund management, and access control.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services using microservices and distributed architecture.
• Define internal and customer-facing APIs that are foundational to the CDP.
• Create technical design documents, providing leadership and clarity across complex projects.
• Guide projects from implementation through deployment and monitoring.
• Enhance operational excellence by proactively addressing technical debt and improving reliability and observability.
• Engage in code reviews, participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and promote a team culture that values constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards.

Required Qualifications

Nice to Haves

Position ID : GDBE05US

Pay Transparency Notice : Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position ranges from $186,065 to $218,900 USD. Full-time offers from Coinbase also include eligibility for bonuses, equity, and benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)).

We encourage candidates to thoughtfully evaluate how their skills align with Coinbase's roles before applying, as each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period.

Equal Opportunity Commitment : Coinbase is committed to equal opportunity employment. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable law.

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