Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer
$186K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and scale backend services and customer experiences for Coinbase Advanced trading, including social, asset discovery, and real-time notifications.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services for global trading experiences.
- Experiment with and optimize trading conversion funnels, using data to prioritize improvements.
- Make system design trade-offs and collaborate across teams to deliver features and quarterly roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including significant Golang and gRPC experience.
- Experience designing scalable service architectures for high-throughput environments, balancing performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, or similar tools, and working knowledge of event-driven architectures such as Kafka or MQ.
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, third-party API integrations, and modern development practices including GraphQL and ETL pipelines.
Pay
$186,065 — $218,900 USD annual base salary
Tools
Golang, gRPC, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Kafka, GraphQL
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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