Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Developer – Foundations)

About Coinbase

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

Job Summary

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing backend services in a microservices/distributed architecture
• Define internal and customer-facing APIs that serve as the building blocks for CDP
• Author technical design documents (TDDs), providing technical leadership and driving clarity across complex projects
• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects through implementation, deployment, and monitoring
• Improve and maintain operational excellence standards across the team, proactively addressing technical debt and driving improvements in reliability and observability
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, lead incident response, and foster a team-wide environment that welcomes constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development, with a strong focus on backend systems
• Expertise in languages such as Golang (preferred), C, Rust or Python
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven architectures
• Comprehensive knowledge of RESTful API design principles and experience with API development, integration and authentication protocols like OAuth