Jobs at Coinbase

Lead and scale Coinbase's Premium & Wealth global, 24/7 white-glove support for high-net-worth and VIP customers. Own strategy, SLAs, regulatory compliance, escalation resolution, and cross-functional partnership while building and mentoring a global team to drive CSAT, retention, and revenue.

Build and ship full‑stack features for a compliance agent platform using Golang and React. Integrate third‑party vendors, design scalable event‑driven services on AWS/Kubernetes, and improve observability, caching, and load balancing. Partner with product, design, security, and data teams, mentor engineers, and apply generative AI responsibly to boost CX and compliance workflows.

Leads strategic workforce management for Customer Experience operations, including AI-informed capacity planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, staffing plans, cost modeling, and automation productivity analysis. Partners with Finance, Product, Legal, Compliance, and senior leadership to align workforce priorities, regulatory readiness, and resourcing decisions. Drives strategic initiatives from business case development through execution and serves as a workforce planning center of excellence.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Leads architecture and hands-on engineering across a futures commission merchant platform, including market data, order routing, settlement, reporting, risk, and liquidation. Drives replatforming away from legacy vendors, improves reliability and technical quality, partners with product, risk, operations, finance, and compliance, and mentors engineers. Requires extensive backend distributed-systems experience, direct FCM or derivatives expertise, regulated-finance experience, and proficiency in Go, Java, or similar technologies.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Own and operate the production threat intelligence platform, maintaining system health, monitoring jobs, and ensuring data quality. Build intelligence-feed integrations, enrichment, tagging, and lifecycle workflows. Deliver intelligence to detections, blocklists, warehouses, and agent workflows. Partner with Security and Product stakeholders to translate requirements into technical capabilities, troubleshoot production issues, and implement durable fixes. Develop production-quality software using Python, Go, or Storm with CI/CD ownership, while responsibly applying generative AI.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Own Coinbase’s end-to-end privacy incident management program, serving as incident commander for personal-data incidents. Coordinate triage, investigation, remediation, escalations, notification workflows, retrospectives, metrics, and process improvements across Privacy, Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and Communications. Maintain on-call readiness, build automation, analyze cloud-native environments using SQL and Python, and support privacy initiatives involving global regulations, privacy controls, and responsible generative AI use.

Lead second-line technology and security risk advisory coverage across critical domains, evaluating risk exposure, control effectiveness, policy alignment, and emerging issues. Partner with engineering and security teams to improve control design and risk outcomes, coordinate remediation across risk and audit functions, communicate risk tradeoffs, and manage and coach technology risk analysts.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Leads and scales the HR Engineering team supporting Workday and related HR applications. Provides technical and functional mentorship, oversees Workday operations, drives automation, upgrades, process improvements, testing, and implementations. Partners with stakeholders, security teams, vendors, and geographically distributed teams to deliver secure, scalable HR technology solutions. Manages vendor RFPs and relationships while coordinating technical projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

Lead frontend development for Coinbase identity experiences including login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication. Own projects from design through deployment and monitoring, guide Native versus Webview architecture, author technical designs, resolve systemic technical debt, lead on-call and incident response, and mentor engineers.