Staff Backend Architect, Enterprise Apps - Go & Cloud

Coinbase; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Agent Engagement and Experience team, building customer service and compliance platforms. You will anchor new projects, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while scaling distributed systems that impact CX and compliance at scale.

The role involves architecture, end-to-end delivery, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple time zones.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering delivering distributed systems.
• Go (Golang) expert; production backend services.
• Experience with cloud, DevOps tooling, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure components.
• Define strategic roadmaps with engineering management and stakeholders.
• Build and scale high-reliability services end-to-end from design to production.
• Mentor engineers on design, testing, and operational best practices.
• Collaborate across time zones to improve platform and communicate complex concepts.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

APIs (gRPC/GraphQL)

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD (BuildKite)

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Agent Engagement and Experience team, building customer service and compliance platforms. You will anchor new projects, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while scaling distributed systems that impact CX and compliance at scale.

The role involves architecture, end-to-end delivery, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple time zones.