Engineering Manager, Platform – Data Layer

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September 29

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Coinbase

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Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows individuals and institutions to buy, sell, and trade various crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers advanced trading tools, institutional solutions, and a self-hosted wallet for storing and managing cryptocurrencies. With a strong focus on security and transparency, Coinbase provides a trusted platform used by millions globally. It supports various features including staking, earning rewards, and spending crypto through their cards. Additionally, Coinbase provides developer tools and APIs for building onchain applications, making it a comprehensive hub for engaging in the crypto economy.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

📋 Description

• Build and manage engineering teams to guide development of features, services, and infrastructure. • Coach direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth. • Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate vision into a quarterly roadmap; break down complex projects and lead iterative design and implementation. • Act as a technical voice aiding architectural decisions and fostering high-quality code and engineering processes. • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale. • Work closely with talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers. • Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet engineering SLAs. • Own the health of the GraphQL Service and the front-end data fetching library for Coinbase's apps infrastructure processing billions of operations per month.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering. • At least 2 years of engineering management experience. • Strong understanding of what constitutes high-quality code and effective software engineering processes. • Execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results. • Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning. • Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale. • Ability to be hands-on when needed (writing/reviewing code, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, triaging/troubleshooting bugs). • Passion for building an open financial system. • Nice to haves: Prior experience leading Developer Experience/Productivity/Platform teams; experience at fast paced, high growth internet/software companies.

🏖️ Benefits

• target bonus • target equity • benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)) • Attendance at team and company-wide offsites (expected and fully supported) • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities