Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years 7+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Engineering Manager for the Ledger platform within Coinbase's Platform team, responsible for guiding feature/service/infrastructure development, coaching engineers, and delivering a multi-tenant distributed system at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Build and manage engineering teams to guide development of features and infrastructure
Coach direct reports for impact and career growth
Implement multi-year strategy with quarterly roadmaps
Drive architectural decisions and code quality
Collaborate to deliver multi-tenant distributed systems at scale

Technical Overview

Leads architecture and technical direction for Ledger, a core financial service; emphasizes multi-tenant distributed systems, on-call readiness, and high-quality engineering processes; includes AI-tooling integration for efficiency.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior engineering manager with 7+ years of software engineering and 2+ years of management experience who can lead a Ledger platform team, architect multi-tenant distributed systems, and drive crypto/onchain infrastructure using Go and Kubernetes.

Must-Have Skills

At least 7 years of experience in software engineeringAt least 2 years of engineering management experienceExperience creatingdeliveringand operating multi-tenanteddistributed systems at scaleHands-on experience writing/reviewing code or technical documentsAbility to use generative AI tools in daily workflows (e.g.LibreChatGeminiGlean)

Nice-to-Have Skills

Prior experience leading a Platform or similar domain teamExperience designing and operating ledgering or trading systems at scaleExperience with financial dataaccounting systemsor high-precision transaction processingKnowledge of GoKubernetesPostgres

Tools & Platforms

KubernetesPostgreSQLPostgresGo (Golang)LibreChatGeminiGlean

Required Skills

distributed systemsmulti-tenant architectureAPIson-call rotationsincident managementledger/platform engineeringGo (Golang)KubernetesPostgreSQLPostgresAI tooling

Hard Skills

KubernetesSQL / PostgreSQLPostgreSQLAPIsDistributed systemsMulti-tenant architectureOn-call rotationsGitIncident managementLedger / onchain concepts

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationstrategic thinkingownership

Industry & Role

Industry Fintech

Job Function Lead Ledger Platform engineering and architecture for Coinbase’s core transaction processing service.

Role Subtype Platform Engineer

Tech Domains Kubernetes, SQL / PostgreSQL

Keywords for Your Resume

Engineering ManagerPlatformLedgermulti-tenanteddistributed systemsGo (Golang)KubernetesPostgreSQLPostgresAPIsonchainEthereum addressesENSdAppson-callincidentsGenerative AI toolsLibreChatGeminiGleanengineering SLAsMulti-tenantDistributed systems

Deal Breakers

7+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years engineering management experience, Unwillingness to work in a hybrid on-site/remote environment, Lack of platform/ledger domain exposure

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