Senior Engineering Manager
About the role
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
- Lead, coach, and grow engineers; support their development and career progression.
- Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and senior leaders to set a clear quarterly roadmap and deliver it iteratively.
- Guide technical decisions and promote high-quality code, sound engineering practices, and reliable distributed systems.
- Stay close to the work through design and code reviews, incident leadership, on-call participation, and troubleshooting when needed.
- Own processes that improve engineering quality and help the team meet its service-level commitments.
- Partner with recruiting to attract and hire strong engineers.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in data platform or infrastructure, including 2+ years in engineering management.
- Experience building, delivering, and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Strong engineering judgment and the ability to foster quality, maintainability, and effective development practices.
- An execution-focused approach: able to work through ambiguity, balance near-term delivery with long-term planning, and turn complex goals into actionable work.
- A hands-on leadership style and willingness to engage in technical work and operational responsibilities.
- Experience leading technical change in a large, fast-moving organization.
- Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- Clear communication, ownership, and a strong customer focus.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation mayalso include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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