Engineering Manager (Institutional - Foundations, Onboarding & Growth)

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world and is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Institutional team. The role involves leading engineering teams to build critical systems for institutional products, collaborating with various stakeholders, and coaching team members to enhance their impact and career growth.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for building the mission critical systems powering institutional products that shape the crypto landscape
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap
• Break down complex projects into smaller pieces and lead the iterative design and implementation process
• Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality and operational excellence
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of complex, distributed systems at scale
• Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth
• Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products
• Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 1 year of engineering management experience
• An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning
• Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale
• You can be hands-on when needed – whether that's writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs
• Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role
• 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've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
• You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services