Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Apps

Coinbase

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Architect to design distributed backend systems powering customer service and compliance platforms in San Francisco. You will define strategic roadmaps, lead technical direction, and mentor engineers to improve engineering quality.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep Go proficiency, scalable backend design, and strong cloud/DevOps capabilities to drive high-traffic services.

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Go and building scalable backend services.
Hands-on cloud infrastructure and DevOps tooling; proven leadership of end-to-end projects.

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure.
Lead technical direction, define strategic roadmaps, and mentor engineers to improve 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

Job description

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure to power customer service and compliance platforms. Lead technical direction, define strategic roadmaps, and mentor engineers to improve overall engineering quality.

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep proficiency in Go and experience building scalable, high-traffic backend services. Must have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and a proven track record of leading technical projects end-to-end.

Key Skills