This role is designed for a high-level technical leader with extensive experience in backend systems and a "full-stack" mindset. Since this is a **Senior Staff*
Work type: remote
Location: Remote - USA
Salary: $253,895 – $298,700/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is designed for a high-level technical leader with extensive experience in backend systems and a "full-stack" mindset. Since this is a **Senior Staff** position, the ideal candidate has a proven track record of driving multi-quarter roadmaps and providing horizontal leadership across multiple teams. You should be comfortable bridging the gap between high-scale web applications and blockchain technology, with a specific focus on growth-related infrastructure like incentive platforms, notifications, and onboarding flows. The compensation is highly competitive, with a base salary ranging from **$253k to $298k**, plus equity and bonuses. While the role is **fully remote within the USA**, it is not "remote-only"—you must be willing to travel for in-person team offsites several times a year. The culture is explicitly described as "intense" and "high-velocity," making this perfect for someone who thrives under pressure and prefers moving fast over perfect consensus. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have experience building foundational infrastructure that directly impacts user acquisition and retention. * Thrive in a high-density talent environment where direct feedback and extreme accountability are the norms. * Can navigate complex dependencies and set technical strategy for an entire engineering organization. * Are genuinely passionate about crypto and motivated by the mission of increasing global economic freedom.
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](https://www.coinbase.com/mission) 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.
## Org Overview:
Consumer & Business Group (CBG)’s mission at Coinbase is to become the #1 financial app in the world, focusing on delivering exceptional consumer and business experiences across financial services, trading, and growth initiatives.
The Growth org’s vision, within CBG, is to grow Coinbase to a billion active users globally, by driving sustainable user growth through innovative acquisition, engagement and retention strategies, and building foundational infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
## Team Overview:
The Growth org builds features, products and systems that repeatedly and predictably drive user growth, through rapid and systematic execution. As a growth org, we take a holistic view of the user’s Coinbase journey, with teams focused on user acquisition, engagement and retention.
## Responsibilities:
We hire and cultivate a world class growth management teams with below attributes as our DNA:
### Impact-Driven
We're building a world-class growth engine by developing features, products, and systems that consistently deliver user value from their first interaction to their entire journey with Coinbase. We do this in a systematic way by:
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our team and build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure infrastructure running in the cloud.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
Pay Transparency Notice:Depending on your work location, the target annual basesalary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$253,895—$298,700 USD
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.