About the position
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. But 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.
Responsibilities
- Build high-performance services using GoLang and gRPC, creating seamless integrations that elevate Coinbase's customer experience.
- Establish and promote best practices in design techniques, coding, testing, documentation, monitoring, and alerting.
- Demonstrate a keen awareness of Coinbase’s platform, development practices, and various technical domains and build upon them to efficiently deliver improvements across multiple teams.
- Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.
- Communicate across the company to technical and non-technical leaders with ease.
- Delivering top quality services in a tight timeframe by navigating seamlessly through uncertainties.
- Working with teams and teammates across multiple time zones.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer and 2+ years building backend services using GoLang and gRPC.
- Be a self-starter, executing complex solutions with minimal guidance while ensuring efficiency and scalability.
- Proven experience integrating at least two third-party applications using Golang.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite or similar cloud infrastructure tools.
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ, etc.) and proficiency in SQL or NoSQL databases.
- A solid understanding of gRPC, GraphQL, ETL pipelines, and modern development practices.
- Strong command of GoLang, with a deep understanding of how to build scalable, reliable backend services.
Nice-to-haves
- Ruby, Python
- SaaS platform experience
- AI/ML
- Applications using OpenAI/ChatGPT
- Experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions or similar.
- Experience with rate limiters, caching, metrics, logging, debugging
Benefits
- Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
