Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company dedicated to increasing economic freedom, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Advanced Trading team. In this role, you will build and scale backend systems for crypto trading, ensuring high availability and performance while leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, development, and reliability of highly performant, highly available backend systems serving traders worldwide
- Build robust, extensible architecture that supports multiple instrument types (Spot, Futures, Perpetual Futures) and scales with growing demand
- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate product vision into best-in-class trading experiences
- Lead complex technical projects end-to-end, setting high standards for code quality, system design, and engineering rigor
- Strengthen the team by providing technical guidance and career mentorship to engineers across the subteam
- Drive high-value feature development from ideation through production, informed by customer needs and comprehensive observability
Skills
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production services through multiple stages of growth and evolution
- Proven track record designing and scaling high-availability, low-latency distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience leading complex, multi-quarter technical projects as the senior technical anchor, including architecture decisions, trade-off analysis, and cross-team coordination
- Deep proficiency in at least one backend language (Golang preferred), with hands-on experience operating datastores such as MongoDB, Redis, or similar at scale
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, elevate team standards, and drive engineering culture improvements with measurable outcomes
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Benefits
- Equity and bonus eligibility
- Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
Company Overview
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.