Remote Senior Staff Engineer (India)

Who We Are

We’re Coinbase. We’re the world’s most trusted way to join the crypto revolution, serving more than 73 million accounts in more than 100 countries. 

Our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web 3.0 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.

Who You Are

• You’ve got good vibes. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there. 
• You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0. 
• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
• You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
• You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
• You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.

About this Role

As a Senior Staff engineer at Coinbase, you will be a steward of our architecture, operations, scale, and security.

You will:

• help us recruit and develop world-class engineers that represent the best in the industry,
• architect, design, and review platforms that support the company’s vision,
• span technologies from cloud to the blockchain,
• work ruthlessly to make our systems safe, our developers productive, and our deliverables trustworthy,
• look outward as well as inward, aligning our executive team and product strategy with changes in technology, and help us create an innovative culture.

While you need to be strategic in your thinking, this is also very much a “hands-on” job - there are no ivory towers or “architect-only” roles. You should be able to dive deep into code and implement complex systems where necessary.

You must be:

• willing to operate without boundaries and be able and willing to fix problems anywhere you find them - in testing and staging, deployment, operations, security, as much as in development and architecture.
• able to care about a single line of code as much as the company’s vision and strategic investments.

Role Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and operate technical architecture and systems. Identify opportunities to improve existing systems/workflows for performance, scale, speed, and accuracy. Ruthlessly optimize for productivity - your own and that of the entire engineering team.
• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement. Participate and drive operational reviews and hold both ICs and managers accountable for improvements. Be a relentless advocate for improving the customer experience created by our architecture and code outcomes.
• Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects. Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.
• Understand the trends within the company and in the industry at large. Call out problematic ideas and provide appropriate push-back to engineers, managers, and executives.
• Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
• Help with leadership recruiting efforts for hiring senior engineers and managers. Recruit others like yourself and serve as a beacon to the best engineers on the planet through blogs, conference presentations, and other external engagements and/or social media.
• Coach and mentor talented engineers by giving them actionable feedback and setting clear goals. Assist in calibrating and developing the engineering team as a whole.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with large scale distributed systems in roles providing technical leadership and direction for software engineering and development
• Strong technical skills for system design and coding
• Comfortable with leading large cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Excellent skills of mentoring, maturity, dealing with conflict and communication - not just within the team but also across the product group and/or all of engineering. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Have previous experience at a fast paced, high growth stage internet/software company
• Embodies our values: Positive energy, continuous learning, clear communication, efficient execution, and commitment to building an inclusive environment

Please note that for employees based in the US, Philippines, Canada or Singapore, if your role requires you to be present in a Coinbase office or if you choose to be physically present in a Coinbase office or sponsored location, participate in any in-person gathering (including offsites) or engage in business travel sponsored by Coinbase, you will be required to be fully vaccinated (as defined by applicable law). 

If you receive an offer, you will receive additional information about the grounds and process for an exemption.