Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. The Platform Product Group builds a trusted, scalable and compliant platform that operates with speed, efficiency and quality. The Backend Platform team (Orchestration and Processing pod) focuses on infrastructure for asynchronous/background jobs used across Coinbase — building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant job processing so other teams can "fire and forget." This role involves working on critical infrastructure that supports user journeys like trading and funds movement, and running Temporal and Coinbase's internal background jobs service.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the tools used to orchestrate background jobs at Coinbase.
• Support critical user journeys such as trading, adding and withdrawing funds.
• Run Temporal and the internal background jobs service across Coinbase.
• Investigate and solve infrastructure problems along critical paths at Coinbase scale, with an emphasis on millisecond-level performance and cost/security implications.
• Build modern, reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant, and performant background jobs used by other teams.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with job processing frameworks and asynchronous/background job processing.
• Strong emphasis on writing high-quality, well-tested code.
• Comfortable diving deep into performance-sensitive problems and production infrastructure.

Nice to have

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

Location & Work Model

• Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation (team/company offsites and periodic in-person collaboration) is required throughout the year. (#LI-Remote)

Compensation

• Pay Range: $180,625 — $212,500 USD (target annual salary). Full-time offers may also include target bonus, target equity, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.).

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans with generous company contributions
• 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 be paid in digital currency

Additional Notes

• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
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