Senior Software Engineer, Coinbase

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a track record of delivering complex systems
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor other engineers
• Deep expertise in at least one backend language (Go, Java, Python, Ruby)
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems in production
• Strong understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and trade-offs
• Proven ability to work with ambiguous requirements and drive technical clarity
• Experience leading incident response and conducting post-mortems
• Expert-level proficiency in Go, Java, or Python
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with database optimization (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake)
• Expertise in message queuing and event streaming systems
• Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, and gRPC

Desirable

• The Risk Engineering Platform team at Coinbase is at the forefront of protecting our platform and millions of users from fraud and financial risks
• We build flexible, scalable, and customizable engineering systems to detect and prevent fraud in real-time, near-real-time, and scheduled workflows
• Our mission is to foster business growth by effectively managing financial risks while maintaining the best possible user experience
• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Risk Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects while driving architectural decisions that shape our risk detection and mitigation systems
• You'll manage complex projects from inception to production, mentor junior engineers, and establish technical standards that elevate the entire team's capabilities
• Your work will directly impact millions of users and billions in transaction volume
• Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
• Provide technical leadership for the delivery of end-to-end projects including implementation, deployment, and monitoring
• Design, scope, and significantly contribute to building new systems and/or major features, applying experience-based judgment
• Manage single or multiple projects end-to-end, regardless of size or complexity
• Lead team rituals including on-call rotations, code reviews, and incident response
• Transform high-level intent and ambiguous business requirements into working architectures
• Proactively improve code quality and address technical debt across the team's code bases
• Identify, propose, and implement scalable solutions that can be leveraged across the team
• Build systems or features that accelerate the team's ability to deliver high-quality work
• Address almost all high-impact debt and quality problems while maintaining existing systems
• Lead the team's troubleshooting, bug triaging, and performance/scalability improvements
• Ensure solutions are workable for teams inside and outside your function
• Support, coach, and mentor junior engineers within your team
• Share your knowledge and mastery with others, magnifying the impact of your abilities
• Make other engineers around me more efficient through guidance and best practices
• Take ownership of unowned or undesirable work that enables the team to move faster
• Work with EMs and PMs to champion prioritization

• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience