Senior Engineering Manager
Coinbase · Posted Oct 8
Cryptocurrency exchange, digital wallet, custody, and blockchain infrastructure services
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About the role
Coinbase's Data Platform team builds the foundations for storing, moving, managing, and using data at scale—including storage, streaming, data lakes, analytics, and experimentation. The role is an engineering management position leading a team that develops reliable data services along with privacy and governance capabilities that help teams use data responsibly. This Senior Engineering Manager will coach engineers, partner cross-functionally on quarterly roadmaps, guide technical decisions, and stay hands-on through reviews and incident leadership.
What you will do
- Lead, coach, and grow engineers; support their development and career progression.
- Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and senior leaders to set a clear quarterly roadmap and deliver it iteratively.
- Guide technical decisions and promote high-quality code, sound engineering practices, and reliable distributed systems.
- Stay close to the work through design and code reviews, incident leadership, on-call participation, and troubleshooting when needed.
- Own processes that improve engineering quality and help the team meet its service-level commitments.
- Partner with recruiting to attract and hire strong engineers.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in data platform or infrastructure, including 2+ years in engineering management.
- Experience building, delivering, and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Strong engineering judgment and the ability to foster quality, maintainability, and effective development practices.
- An execution-focused approach: able to work through ambiguity, balance near-term delivery with long-term planning, and turn complex goals into actionable work.
- A hands-on leadership style and willingness to engage in technical work and operational responsibilities.
- Experience leading technical change in a large, fast-moving organization.
- Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- Clear communication, ownership, and a strong customer focus.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits and support
- equity
- bonus eligibility
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
About Coinbase
Coinbase is a leading financial technology company that operates a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital assets. Serving retail consumers, institutional investors, and developers worldwide, the company provides comprehensive exchange capabilities, institutional custody services, and scalable blockchain infrastructure like the Base network. Its mission is to increase economic freedom around the world by building the foundational financial rails for the cryptoeconomy.
- Industry
- Cryptocurrency
- Company size
- 4300+ employees
- Founded
- June 2012
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $547M raised
- 2025-12-19Post IPO Equity$2.6B
- 2021-08-13Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2021-05-17Post IPO$1.25B
- 2020-07-01Series U$75M
- 2018-10-01Series E$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
President and Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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