Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Foundations)

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world and is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Institutional Foundations team. This role involves architecting and developing distributed systems, mentoring team members, and designing foundational infrastructure components used across engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 8+ 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
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
• 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