The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Own backend services end to end for prediction markets, from market creation: and discovery through trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payout.
Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for a real-time financial product used by millions of people.
Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident: response for systems serving millions of users.
Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay: down the technical debt that matters most.
Mentor engineers across the team and partner cross-functionally with Product,: Design, Institutional Markets, and Compliance to turn product and technical vision into roadmap.
+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with demonstrated: ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
What they're looking for
- Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) with: hands-on experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems
- Track record of delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping,: architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
- Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment where: correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical
- Experience making user-facing product decisions that balance engineering: trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products
