Engineering Manager; Institutional - Prime, Trade Interfaces
Listed on 2026-01-08
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Software Engineer
Overview
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.
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.
We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. If you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
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.
The Institutional Product Group engineers create and maintain a suite of products catering to institutional customers of all sizes, from Hedge Funds to experienced individual traders. Whether the customer needs are trading, staking, governance, custody, web3 operations, or API integrations, Coinbase Institutional has them covered.
The Coinbase Prime Trading Interfaces team is at the forefront of our algorithmic trading system, specializing in public facing APIs that enable communication directly between our end users and algos. Our system is highly resilient and fault tolerant to provide 99.99% uptime for our users through critical user journeys from placing trades to streaming market data and generating reports. The system handles streaming and unary requests with millions of requests per day, across a number of endpoints and protocols.
Our team works closely with product, engineering and ops to deliver a truly unique experience to our users. The team is obsessed with statistics around our performance and constantly iterates to improve.
What you’ll be doing (i.e. job duties):
- Leading a team of 5-6 engineers
- Establishing team mechanisms and norms for effective and efficient execution
- Collaborating with cross functional partners on the product and operational strategies
- Coordinating with QA to triage incoming issues
- Monitoring and triaging issues with our downstream partners
- Establishing operating metrics and keeping them met
- Owning product surface areas and features on Prime Public APIs, Prime Public FIX, Trading Router
- Build and manage full-stack engineering teams, to guide the development of features, services, and infrastructure across web and mobile
- Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap and break down complex projects into smaller pieces
- A thoughtful technical voice in architectural decisions and fostering high-quality code and engineering processes; ensure delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale
- Work closely with talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase’s culture
- Contribute to and own processes that drive engineering quality and meet SLAs
- Managing backend centric/fullstack teams/products
- Hands on experience in technical architecture
- Experience with highly distributed systems built for scale in cloud centric environments
Job # P72250
LI-Remote
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 target bonus, target equity, and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Pay Range: $218,025—$256,500 USD
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