Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer in USA

Coinbase
Full time
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USA
10/21/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Golang and gRPC.
Own social, asset discovery, and real-time notification experiences for Coinbase Advanced trading products.
Lead experimentation and conversion-funnel optimization for key trading journeys.
Make system design trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Champion engineering practices for design, coding, testing, documentation, monitoring, and alerting.
Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product vision into quarterly roadmaps and outcomes.
Take ambiguous, multi-quarter projects from concept to production with minimal guidance.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
Significant experience with Golang and gRPC and with designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production systems.
Demonstrated ability to design scalable service architectures and make trade-offs in high-throughput environments.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, or similar cloud infrastructure tools.
Working knowledge of event-driven architectures such as Kafka or MQ.
Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, third-party API integrations, GraphQL, and ETL pipelines.
Strong technical judgment and the ability to execute ambiguous projects with minimal oversight.
Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Benefits

Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), potential equity, and bonus eligibility are listed as part of the total compensation package.

Salary: $186k - $219k/yr

Coinbase

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more...

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