Senior Software Engineer, Data Layer

Coinbase

Remote

5+ years

Remote

Full-Time

$186,065—$218,900 USD

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Skills

Go Java GraphQL distributed systems microservices API platform design caching on-call/incident response

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on Coinbase's Data Layer team, owning the GraphQL API platform serving the majority of user traffic, requiring 5+ years of professional distributed-systems engineering experience.

Requirements

5+ years of professional engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Java, or similar)
Track record of delivering projects end to end
Experience decomposing complex systems into clean APIs, comfort owning on-call responsibilities
Demonstrated ability to align technical decisions with cross-functional stakeholders

What you'll do

Own and deliver projects end to end
Design and build high-reliability, low-latency systems serving millions of users
Build and improve API framework and tooling
Drive operational excellence across T0 services
Partner cross-functionally to design API schemas
Set technical bar, mentor engineers

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