Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Base

Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.

We're hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Growth & App Infra team within the Consumer & Business Group. This team builds the features, products, and systems that repeatedly and predictably drive user growth across Coinbase's 100M+ user base — from SEO and onboarding through core trading and investing. You'll architect and ship the next generation of backend systems powering real-time, high-frequency experiences at global scale, and provide horizontal technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.

What you’ll do:

• Own the architecture and development of scalable backend services powering the next generation of crypto products — including risk platform, notifications platform, and dynamic presentation systems.
• Build and scale user-facing experiences across the full Coinbase product journey — from SEO and logged-out discovery through onboarding, trading, and investing — touching web, mobile, backend, data, and ML.
• Drive technical quality and performance across complex systems at scale — defining the right metrics and SLOs, and holding the bar on reliability and latency for real-time applications.
• Lead horizontal technical direction across multiple engineering teams — collaborating with leaders across the company to influence architecture decisions and unblock high-impact initiatives.
• Shape scalable, reusable solutions that can be leveraged across Coinbase — building the growth engine infrastructure that enables the team to iterate faster and compound results.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with deep expertise in building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Demonstrated track record of horizontal technical leadership across multiple engineering teams — influencing architecture, quality, and delivery without direct authority.
• Proven ability to architect systems that handle high-frequency, low-latency workloads with stringent reliability requirements.
• Experience collaborating with senior engineering and product leaders to drive technical direction and make high-stakes trade-offs.
• Passion for building products and systems that deliver measurable impact to the business — with a strong bias toward fast iteration and results orientation.
• Utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: 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):

$145,680—$172,853 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.

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AI Disclosure

For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.

For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.

**The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com.