Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform)

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.

To achieve our mission, Coinbase is seeking a candidate who is passionate about crypto and blockchain technology, eager to leave a mark, comfortable with high expectations, and open to feedback. The Platform Product Group builds trusted, scalable, and compliant platform components. The Backend Platform team investigates and solves infrastructure problems along critical paths at Coinbase scale, with strong focus on millisecond-level performance and reliability.

This position is within the Orchestration and Processing pod, developing background jobs. The team builds modern, reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant, performant background jobs and orchestration tooling that other teams can depend on.

Note on remote work: Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year; team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually. The posting is marked #LI-Remote.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the tools used to orchestrate background jobs at Coinbase.
• Support critical user journeys such as trading, adding and withdrawing funds, and more.
• Run Temporal and Coinbase's internal background jobs service across the company.
• Build abstractions that allow other teams to "fire and forget" background processing while ensuring scalability, performance, fault tolerance, and security.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with job processing frameworks.
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Comfort working on infrastructure that demands millisecond-level performance and high reliability.

Nice to haves

• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity (interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services).
• Experience working with Temporal.
• Experience working with Cadence.

Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

Pay and Benefits

• Pay Range: $180,625—$212,500 USD (target annual salary; offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits such as medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)).
• Benefits include medical, dental and vision plans, HSA with company contributions, disability and life insurance, 401(k) with company match, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend, volunteer time off, fertility counseling, generous time off/leave policy, and the option of getting paid in digital currency.

Other information

• Candidates may submit up to four applications within any 30-day period.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories where applicable.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
• Global data privacy notices apply depending on location.
• AI tools may be piloted for initial screening interviews for select roles; human recruiters will review responses.