Summary

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Developer Experience (DevX) is responsible for making sure all engineers at Coinbase build high-quality products while being productive and engaged. We do this by providing infrastructure, libraries, frameworks, and tooling to make it easier and faster to build high quality applications. Within Developer Experience, we organize into “pods” that focus on different specializations. This position is for the EM responsible for the Data Layer Team. The Data Layer Team is responsible for the health of the GraphQL Service, and the front-end data fetching library. These are T0 services that are critical to the foundation of our apps infrastructure, processing billions of operations per month.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

1. Build and manage engineering teams, to guide the development of features, services, and infrastructure.
2. Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth.
3. Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap on a quarterly basis. Break down complex projects into smaller pieces and lead the iterative design and implementation process.
4. Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of 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.
5. Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products.
6. Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

1. At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
2. At least 2 years of engineering management experience
3. Experience building and maintaining a GraphQL Server and supporting libraries like Apollo Router, GQLGen, etc..
4. You possess a strong understanding of what constitutes high-quality code and effective software engineering processes, creating an environment that fosters these principles.
5. An execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results.
6. An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
7. Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
8. You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
9. Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role.

Nice to haves:

1. Full-Stack software development experience
2. Prior experience leading a Developer Experience/Productivity, Platform, or similar domain team
3. Have previous experience at a fast paced, high growth stage internet/software company

Job #: GPEM06US-IN

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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Base salary range shown. Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits:

$211,650 - $249,000 USD

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Database Management
• Development
• Software Engineering
• SQL
• Team Collaboration