Engineering Manager (Institutional - Foundations)

Details

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.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

You’ll be joining the Coinbase Institutional team. Our engineers create and maintain a suite of products catering to institutional customers of all sizes from Hedge Funds (Coinbase Prime) to experienced individual traders (Coinbase Advanced Trade) and everything in between. Additional Institutional Products include Custody, Commerce, and Exchange. Whether the customer needs are trading, financing, staking, governance, custody or API integrations, Coinbase Institutional has them covered.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you’d be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for building the mission critical systems powering institutional products that shape the crypto landscape.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap. Break down complex projects into smaller pieces and lead the iterative design and implementation process.
• Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality and operational excellence. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of complex, distributed systems at scale.
• Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth.
• Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products.
• Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.
• Be hands-on when needed: writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, triaging/troubleshooting bugs.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 1 year of engineering management experience.
• An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
• Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on capability for code, on-call rotations, incident leadership, and troubleshooting.
• Passion for building an open financial system and for crypto/blockchain technology.

Nice to haves

• Experience at companies that grew rapidly (from ~10 to 100s of engineers).
• Experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum).
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres.
• Experience building financial, high-reliability, or security-sensitive systems.
• Crypto-forward experience, including interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, and dApps or blockchain-based services.

Compensation and Other Details

• Job ID: P66882
• #LI-Remote
• Pay Range: $218,025—$256,500 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits such as medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
• Pay transparency: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed above.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Disability and Life Insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Wellness Stipend
• Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
• Connections Stipend
• Volunteer Time Off
• Fertility Counseling and Benefits
• Generous Time off/Leave Policy
• Option to receive pay in digital currency

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics. Coinbase will consider applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law. For US applicants, Employee Rights and Know Your Rights notices are linked in the original posting. Coinbase participates in E-Verify in certain locations.

Coinbase is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities; contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com.

AI Disclosure

Coinbase is piloting an AI tool for initial screening interviews for select roles; a human recruiter will review interview responses. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes. These pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.

How to Apply

Apply via the original posting link or the provided application URL.