Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Risk Platform (Travel Rule)

Coinbase San Francisco, CA $218,025 - $256,500
Full Time Senior Level 8+ years

Posted 4 weeks ago

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About This Role

Architect and develop distributed systems for Coinbae's Risk Platform, focusing on the Crypto Travel Rule solution. Lead technical discussions, mentor team members, and define strategic roadmaps to ensure comprehensive compliance, customer privacy, and security.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop distributed systems
  • Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
  • Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with technical expertise
  • Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
  • Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production
  • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of customers

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering

Nice to Have

  • Experience building financial, high reliability or security systems
  • Exposure to online fraud prevention systems
  • Experience with rapid growth in a company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
  • Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
  • Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
  • Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity

Skills

Docker * Golang * Postgres * Ruby * Rails * Sinatra *

* Required skills

Benefits

401(k)
Vision benefits
Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Equity

About Coinbase

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.

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