Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Join Coinbase: Engineering Manager Opportunity

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you're capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It's a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we're seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company's hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there's no better place to be. 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.

Job Duties

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead one of the Data Platform teams within the Platform Product Group. The Platform Product Group is dedicated to building a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform. Its mission is to maximize velocity, efficiency, and quality by establishing foundational elements used across various products and teams at Coinbase, ensuring users receive a consistent and high-quality experience.

• Build and manage engineering teams, to guide the development of features, services, and infrastructure
• Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products.
• Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.

Job Requirements

We are looking for someone with:

• 9+ years of experience managing critical datastores infrastructure with high transaction throughput, production reliability, big migration, and technology evolution
• Track records of architecting and scaling databases with partitioning, sharding, distributed db, caching, router/proxy
• Hands-on practice with Relational & NoSQL as well as some relevant engines, such as Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch
• Real-world experience of design scale-out infra and triage performance/reliability issues in a distributed env
• Leadership in terms of advancing developer experience/velocity and enforcing standards via self-service tools
• Proven experience of managing infra budget, contracts and vendors for efficiency, optimization and evolution roadmap
• Effective communication for mandarin-but-instrumental technical aspects, guidelines and tradeoffs to other service/product teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Effect way to build and nurture multiple sub teams with big vision/roadmap, "can do" spirit, and practical dependency & priorities

Job #: GPEM07US

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: $253,895—$298,700 USD

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