Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

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Hiring Remotely in India
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Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Coinbase is a secure platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency.
The Role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase, you will architect and develop platforms focusing on identity and regulatory systems. Responsibilities include managing project priorities, mentoring team members, writing high-quality code, and collaborating with various stakeholders to realize strategic roadmaps for engineering initiatives.
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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure.

The Identity and Regulatory team is responsible for developing a platform that allows users to onboard and access Coinbase and its products. Our goal is to establish Coinbase as the most trusted platform for billions of customers while meeting the highest regulatory standards in the industry. We aim to create a unified, trusted, and secure platform for customer identity, seamless access, and authorization across all Coinbase products and the wider crypto ecosystem.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

  • Architect and develop platform for the identity and regulatory
  • Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
  • Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
  • Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
  • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
  • Hands-on with coding
  • Plan and Implement the multi-year strategy for Identity and Regulatory engineering with the technical leadership on your team
  • Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
  • Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction
  • Engage with upstream teams and enforce  SLAs for data availability and quality


What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering
  • You’ve 4+ years of experience in architecting big data systems around technologies like Apache Spark and Hive
  • Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
  • You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
  • You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to haves:

  • You’ve worked with Golang, gRPC, Docker and SQL
  • You’ve have experience of working with finance and accounting teams
  • You’ve experience in performance tuning of big data systems


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Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view the Know Your Rights notice here.  Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.  For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).

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The Company
3,700 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system.

Why Work With Us

We’ve taken a huge challenge and made it into our mission: To create an open financial system for the world. To achieve this, we are building a team of smart, creative, passionate optimists, the kind of people who see opportunity where others see roadblocks. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles.

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