Senior Staff Backend Architect - Enterprise Apps

Coinbase; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase seeks an architect and senior backend engineer to design distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure powering customer service and compliance platforms. You will define strategic roadmaps and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

You will lead technical direction, own cloud and DevOps practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, high-traffic services using Go, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with Go
• Experience building scalable, high-traffic backend services
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure and DevOps tooling experience
• Proven track record leading technical projects

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure
• Define strategic roadmaps and mentor engineers
• Lead technical direction and improve engineering 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

GraphQL

Job description

Coinbase seeks an architect and senior backend engineer to design distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure powering customer service and compliance platforms. You will define strategic roadmaps and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

You will lead technical direction, own cloud and DevOps practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, high-traffic services using Go, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies.