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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll build and scale the core systems that power crypto trading at Coinbase. The Advanced Trade team is building a seamless, secure trading platform for experienced traders, supporting multiple instrument types including Spot, Futures, and Perpetual Futures. You'll own critical backend infrastructure that demands high availability and high performance, tackling complex engineering challenges while contributing directly to Coinbase's core business.

What you'll do:

Own the design, development, and reliability of highly performant, highly available backend systems serving traders worldwide
Build robust, extensible architecture that supports multiple instrument types (Spot, Futures, Perpetual Futures) and scales with growing demand
Partner closely with Product and Design to translate product vision into best-in-class trading experiences
Lead complex technical projects end-to-end, setting high standards for code quality, system design, and engineering rigor
Strengthen the team by providing technical guidance and career mentorship to engineers across the subteam
Drive high-value feature development from ideation through production, informed by customer needs and comprehensive observability

Required Skills and Experience:

8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production services through multiple stages of growth and evolution
Proven track record designing and scaling high-availability, low-latency distributed systems in a production environment
Experience leading complex, multi-quarter technical projects as the senior technical anchor, including architecture decisions, trade-off analysis, and cross-team

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

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