Senior Backend Architect - Enterprise Apps & Systems

Coinbase; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Architect to design distributed backend systems powering customer service and compliance platforms in San Francisco. You will define strategic roadmaps, lead technical direction, and mentor engineers to improve engineering quality.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep Go proficiency, scalable backend design, and strong cloud/DevOps capabilities to drive high-traffic services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go and building scalable backend services.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure and DevOps tooling; proven leadership of end-to-end projects.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure.
• Lead technical direction, define strategic roadmaps, and mentor engineers to improve quality.

Skills

Golang

gRPC

TypeScript

React

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

GraphQL

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Generative AI

System Architecture

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an Architect to design distributed backend systems powering customer service and compliance platforms in San Francisco. You will define strategic roadmaps, lead technical direction, and mentor engineers to improve engineering quality.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep Go proficiency, scalable backend design, and strong cloud/DevOps capabilities to drive high-traffic services.