Senior Staff Backend Engineer, Enterprise Systems Architect

Coinbase; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Architect to design and deliver distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure for customer service and compliance platforms. You will lead technical direction, define strategic roadmaps, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering quality.

The role emphasizes hands-on Go backend work, cloud operations, and end-to-end ownership of major projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with Go and scalable backend systems.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and leadership of technical projects.

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 is seeking an Architect to design and deliver distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure for customer service and compliance platforms. You will lead technical direction, define strategic roadmaps, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering quality.

The role emphasizes hands-on Go backend work, cloud operations, and end-to-end ownership of major projects in a fast-paced environment.