As a Principal Engineer at Coinbase, you will be a steward of our architecture, operations, scale, and security. You will architect, design, and review platforms that support the company’s vision across crypto, fiat, identity, application engineering, and other domains. You will span technologies from mobile to cloud to the blockchain. You will work to make our systems safe, our developers productive, and our deliverables trustworthy. You will look outward as well as inward, aligning our executive team and product strategy with changes in technology, and help us create an innovative culture where we are agents of those changes.
While you need to be strategic in your thinking, this is also very much a “hands-on” job – there are no ivory towers or “architecture-only” roles. You should be able to dive deep into code and implement complex systems where necessary. You must be willing to operate without boundaries and be able and willing to fix problems anywhere you find them – in testing, deployment, operations, security, or strategy, as much as in development and architecture. You must be able to care about a single line of code as much as the company’s vision and strategic investments.
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10+ years of experience providing technical leadership and direction for software engineering and development.
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Solid technical skills for design and coding.
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BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent.
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Experience with distributed systems and large scale engineering challenges.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
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Excellent skills of mentoring, maturity, dealing with conflict and communication both within the team and across the product group and/or all of engineering.
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Comfortable leading large cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and engineering teams.
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Embodies our values: Positive energy, continuous learning, clear communication, efficient execution, and commitment to building an inclusive environment.
