Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

Coinbase is a company on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. They are seeking an experienced backend engineer to join their Advanced Trading team to build and scale core systems that power crypto trading, focusing on creating a seamless and secure trading platform for experienced traders.

Responsibilities:

• Power highly performant, highly available systems for traders worldwide
• Architect robust systems that are easy to build on top of supporting many instrument types (Spot, Futures, Perpetual Futures, and more)
• Work in tight collaboration with product and design to articulate a best-in-class product experience
• Provide technical guidance and career mentorship to engineers. You will anchor complex projects and ensure high standards for code quality and system design
• Translate your best ideas into tangible, high value features our customers love

Requirements:

• You have at least 8 years of experience in software engineering
• You've designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services as they evolve over time
• You have a high bar for product excellence, pairing customer obsession with comprehensive observability
• You empower and cultivate your teammates
• You take pride in being up-to-date with the latest industry standards and best practices
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., Claude, LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
• You've worked on active trading systems or other similar high availability financial systems
• You actively trade crypto or other financial instruments
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
• You have experience upgrading significant parts of legacy systems, or re-architecting next-generation versions of existing systems
• You've worked with Golang, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake before