Senior Software Engineer, Data Layer — Remote

Neura Market; United States; Hybrid; USD 186,065 - 218,900; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Layer on the Platform group. You will shape the API platform that connects client apps to backend services, handling the majority of user traffic across Consumer, Base, and Institutional products.

You will own end-to-end projects, design high-reliability, low-latency systems, build the API framework used by hundreds of engineers, and drive on-call reliability and incident response while mentoring teammates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience with ownership of distributed systems.
• Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Java, or similar).
• Experience delivering end-to-end projects with reliability and performance.
• Experience decomposing systems into clean APIs used by multiple teams; on-call responsibilities.
• Ability to collaborate with frontend, product teams, and platform consumers.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end to end from scoping to production validation.
• Design and build high-reliability, low-latency systems serving millions of users.
• Build and improve API framework and tooling for engineers.
• Drive operational excellence: SLOs, observability, incident response.
• Partner with product engineering teams to design API schemas.
• Set the technical bar through code reviews and mentoring.

Skills

Go / Java

Distributed systems

API design

On-call experience

Cross-functional

AI in workflow

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Layer on the Platform group. You will shape the API platform that connects client apps to backend services, handling the majority of user traffic across Consumer, Base, and Institutional products.

You will own end-to-end projects, design high-reliability, low-latency systems, build the API framework used by hundreds of engineers, and drive on-call reliability and incident response while mentoring teammates.