The vacancy is well-structured with clear expectations and compensation details, making it appealing to applicants.
Job description
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end development of user-facing features across the compliance agent platform using Golang, React, and cloud technologies, from design through production deployment.
- Lead assessment, selection, and implementation of third-party tools and vendor integrations that extend platform capabilities and accelerate delivery.
- Partner with product, design, security, and data teams to deliver cross-functional solutions to complex compliance and CX problems.
- Build and maintain scalable, high-traffic services leveraging event-driven architectures, caching, load balancing, and observability tooling across AWS and Kubernetes.
- Mentor engineers on design patterns, coding standards, testing strategies, and deployment best practices to raise the overall quality bar for the team.
Requirements
- 2+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale, user-facing systems with Golang, React, and cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems patterns including rate limiters, circuit breakers, caching, load balancing, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ, or similar), plus proficiency in SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Demonstrated ability to author and contribute to technical architecture decisions, translating complex technical concepts into clear documentation and communication for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Conditions
- Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $152,405—$179,300 USD.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
About Coinbase
Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, trade, store, stake, and transfer cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It serves over 100 million users worldwide, operates in more than 100 countries, and provides infrastructure for onchain activities while advocating for crypto regulations.