Senior Software Engineer, Data Layer - Remote

Coinbase; Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Layer to design and deliver high-availability backend systems at scale. You will own end-to-end projects, from scoping and architecture to rollout and production validation, partnering with product teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.

Expect to work on low-latency services serving millions of users, shaping API frameworks, and driving reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Backend development in Go or Java with microservices and API platforms.
• Experience delivering end-to-end projects in high-availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver projects end to end, from scoping and system design through implementation, rollout, and production validation.
• Design and build high-reliability, low-latency systems serving millions of users.
• Build and improve the API framework and tooling that engineers depend on across the company.
• Drive operational excellence by owning SLOs, observability, incident response, and reducing toil.
• Partner with product engineering teams to design API schemas and support service launches.
• Set technical direction through code/design reviews and mentoring across the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

Go

Java

System design

Microservices

On-call ownership

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Layer to design and deliver high-availability backend systems at scale. You will own end-to-end projects, from scoping and architecture to rollout and production validation, partnering with product teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.

Expect to work on low-latency services serving millions of users, shaping API frameworks, and driving reliability and observability.