Key skills
PythonCGolangRustKafkaAWSKubernetesPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisOAuthJWTRESTfulRabbitMQMemcachedCachingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their CDP Foundations team. The role involves building and maintaining scalable backend services, defining APIs, and leading technical projects while ensuring operational excellence and high code quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing backend services in a microservices/distributed architecture
- Define internal and customer-facing APIs that serve as the building blocks for CDP
- Author technical design documents (TDDs), providing technical leadership and driving clarity across complex projects
- Lead end-to-end delivery of projects through implementation, deployment, and monitoring
- Improve and maintain operational excellence standards across the team, proactively addressing technical debt and driving improvements in reliability and observability
- Participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, lead incident response, and foster a team-wide environment that welcomes constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development, with a strong focus on backend systems
- Expertise in languages such as Golang (preferred), C, Rust or Python
- Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven architectures
- Comprehensive knowledge of RESTful API design principles and experience with API development, integration and authentication protocols like OAuth and JWT
- Familiarity with AWS and containerization using Kubernetes
- Understanding of web security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Experience designing public-facing APIs
- Experience building financial platforms or fintech systems
- Experience with crypto/onchain ecosystem (but not required)