Role in brief
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to enhance their agentic trading system by developing backend solutions. Candidates should have strong backend expertise and experience with API design and distributed systems.
About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase, you will be responsible for the backend services that power Coinbase Advisor and Strategies. This role involves technical design, building integrations with trading APIs, and developing systems for managing agent behavior, ensuring high reliability and performance.
Coinbase operates as a remote-first company dedicated to economic freedom. Success in this position means effectively collaborating with various teams, including frontend engineering and legal compliance, to deliver innovative financial solutions while managing complex projects from inception to production.
The base salary for this role ranges from $112,000 to $188,000, with potential for additional compensation through equity and bonuses.
Skills that matter here
- Go: Proficiency in Go is necessary for developing backend solutions.
- API design: This role requires strong experience in designing APIs for trading integrations.
- distributed systems: Candidates should have expertise in building and maintaining distributed systems.
- data modeling: Data modeling skills are essential for managing complex data structures.
- testing: Strong testing skills are needed to ensure the reliability of production systems.
- debugging: Debugging skills are crucial for addressing and resolving production failures.
Who this role suits
- A seasoned software engineer with over five years of backend experience.
- Someone who thrives in a remote work environment and enjoys tackling ambiguous projects.
- A strong collaborator who can effectively partner with cross-functional teams.
- An individual who is proactive and can take ownership of projects from start to finish.
From the employer
- Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation.
- Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs.
- Develop our agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions.
- Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evals, and conversation analysis.
- Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety.
- Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise.
- Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
- Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly.
- Experience building production LLM or agentic systems.
- Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight.
- Base salary range: $112K - $188K.
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
Coinbase is a remote-first company, allowing for remote work.
What is the seniority level of this position?
This role is classified as a senior position.
How do I apply for this job?
You can apply through the Coinbase careers website.
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