Staff Backend Engineer: Ledger & Scalable Systems (Remote-First)

P2P; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,025 - 256,500; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Engineer on the FinHub - Ledger team to own the architectural direction of core ledgering systems that process billions of transactions. You will influence scalable, highly available infrastructure and lead cross-functional projects spanning engineering, product, and finance.

The role requires 8+ years of distributed systems experience with Go, Python, or Java, and hands-on work with Kubernetes and Postgres.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Expertise in backend programming languages Go, Python, Java.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Hands-on with Go, Kubernetes, and Postgres; scalable architectures.
• Responsible use of Generative AI with human oversight to improve efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build foundational backend systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability across ledgering and transaction processing infrastructure.
• Drive strategic technical direction for complex, cross-team initiatives spanning engineering, product, and finance.
• Establish and evolve platform best practices, frameworks, and architectural standards that raise the quality bar for the broader engineering organization.
• Provide deep technical mentorship, guide design decisions, and develop senior engineers across the team.
• Shape the team's technical roadmap by collaborating with engineering leadership to identify high-leverage investments and anticipate scaling bottlenecks.
• Embed AI into engineering and operational practices to drive system improvements and workflow efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Java

Leadership

Mentorship

AI governance

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Postgres

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Engineer on the FinHub - Ledger team to own the architectural direction of core ledgering systems that process billions of transactions. You will influence scalable, highly available infrastructure and lead cross-functional projects spanning engineering, product, and finance.

The role requires 8+ years of distributed systems experience with Go, Python, or Java, and hands-on work with Kubernetes and Postgres.