Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Platform Product Group, focusing on building a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. The role combines individual contribution with technical leadership, project anchoring, and mentoring responsibilities.

The Platform Product Group builds foundational components used across Coinbase's products, ensuring consistent and high-quality user experiences. The position requires someone passionate about increasing economic freedom through crypto and blockchain technology, who excels in solving complex problems and thrives in an intense work culture.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll be responsible for architecting distributed systems, defining strategic roadmaps with stakeholders, managing project deliverables, and implementing critical infrastructure components used by every engineering team. The role requires expertise in building scalable solutions, mentoring team members, and maintaining high coding standards.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of architecting solutions to ambiguous problems. Experience with rapid company growth, microservices architecture, and technologies like Golang, Ruby, Docker, and Postgres is valuable. Knowledge of financial systems, high-reliability architectures, or crypto-related experience is a plus.

Coinbase offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, wellness stipends, fertility benefits, and the unique option of getting paid in digital currency. The company is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.