Position Details

Type Not Specified

Experience lead

Exp. Years 7+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Engineering Manager role at Coinbase focusing on building and operating multi-tenant distributed systems with emphasis on reliability, on-call readiness, and collaboration across product and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Build and manage engineering teams
Translate vision to quarterly roadmap
Deliver multi-tenant distributed systems at scale
Coach engineers and ensure quality
Partner with product leadership

Technical Overview

Strong backend focus with Go/Python/Ruby; cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure); Kubernetes and Docker; Terraform and CloudFormation; observability with Datadog and Kibana; CI/CD and incident response

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an engineering manager with 7+ years of software engineering and 2+ years of leadership, experienced in building multi-tenant distributed systems at scale. They should excel at recruiting, architectural decision-making, and delivering reliable, high-quality software in a remote-friendly, NYC-valued environment.

Must-Have Skills

At least 7 years of software engineering experienceAt least 2 years of engineering management experienceExperience delivering multi-tenantdistributed systems at scaleHands-on coding and on-call incident experienceStrong focus on high-quality code and engineering processesExperience with multi-tenantdistributed financial systems is a plusNYC location presence preferred

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience in Auth domain or financial systemsExperience managing a larger group (~15 engineers)

Tools & Platforms

TerraformKubernetesDockerAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformAzureDatadogKibanaElasticsearchELK stack

Required Skills

7+ years of software engineering; 2+ years in management; multi-tenant distributed systems; on-call incident handling; high-quality code and processes; experience with multi-tenant financial systems preferred

Hard Skills

GoPythonTerraformKubernetesDockerAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformAzureDatadogKibanaElasticsearchELK stackRubyGoCI/CDOn-call rotations

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem solvingownershipresult-oriented

Industry & Role

Industry Fintech

Job Function Lead backend engineering and reliability for Coinbase's core platform with multi-tenant architecture

Role Subtype Engineering Manager

Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Kibana, Elasticsearch

Keywords for Your Resume

engineering managercoinbaseremote-friendlynyc preferredmulti-tenantdistributed systemson-callobservabilitykubernetesdockerterraformawsgcpazuredatadogkibanaelasticsearchrubygo

Deal Breakers

Must be willing to be on-site in NYC, Remote-only candidates may not be considered

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