Senior Software Engineer – Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer – Coinbase

Location: Remote (U.S.)

Level: Senior (5+ years experience)

Tech Stack: Golang, Docker, Ruby, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB

About the Role

Join Coinbase’s mission to increase global economic freedom by building the future of the onchain financial system. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Build new backend services in Golang aligned with critical product and business needs.
• Design scalable, maintainable backend systems using modern cloud technologies and best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, designers, and leadership to turn vision into quarterly roadmaps.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code focused on customer needs.
• Help solve complex, large-scale problems bridging blockchain and web-scale applications.

What Coinbase Looks For

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, ideally within a service-oriented architecture.
• Passion for building an open financial system leveraging crypto and blockchain.
• Strong coding skills producing high-quality, well-tested code.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling from startup to mid-size company.
• Familiarity with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Hands-on blockchain knowledge (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
• Experience decomposing monoliths into microservices.
• Knowledge of Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
• Background in building financial, high-reliability, or security-critical systems.

Culture & Commitment

• Intense, high-caliber, feedback-driven culture.
• Remote-first but expects in-person participation for offsites throughout the year.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and accommodation.