Senior Software Engineer, Backend; Developer - Foundations

Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) is building the developer tools to bring the world onchain. Today, onchain development is slow, risky, and painful, even for the most experienced onchain developers. Our goal is to bring a million developers onchain by creating an easy to use and trusted developer experience. We build API and SDK products for developers like wallets, paymaster, staking, stable coins, onchain data, and more.

We are a small team that moves like a startup at Coinbase, with a fast pace, strong ownership culture, and a relentless commitment to making developers happy.

The CDP Foundations team owns the core data model and primitives that power the Coinbase Developer Platform. We build the foundational layer that defines how organizations structure themselves, how users and customers are represented and verified, how funds are contained and owned, and how access is controlled.

• 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

• 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 (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and message queues (Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ)
• 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 and JWT
• Familiarity with AWS and containerization using Kubernetes
• Understanding of web security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Experience designing public-facing APIs
• Experience building financial platforms or fintech systems
• Experience with crypto/onchain ecosystem (but not required)

Position

Pay Transparency Notice:
Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range: $186,065—$218,900 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

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