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.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Networks team to design, implement, and maintain our cloud-base network infrastructure. This team is a part of our Infrastructure org in our Platform Product Group. The mission of the Platform Product Group is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase.

• Architect, design, deploy, document and manage our Cloud-based network infrastructure. This includes all ingress and egress, both internal and external.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer our cloud services, topologies and implementations.
• Coding IP tables and software defined networking
• Lead and defend technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and identifying value and requirements for other teams in the organization.
• Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our infrastructure.
• Communicate to gather requirements and evangelize the Cloud offerings, and to understand gaps and improvements.
• Produce professional documentation and diagrams to clearly and concisely communicate concepts and architectures to infrastructure colleagues, in addition to our users.
• Manage and assist in the resolution of complicated technical problems and incidents, provide appropriate communication and escalation.
• Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, IT, business partners, stakeholders and vendors
• Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• At least 5+ years network engineering experience in industry
• Built systems on public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Ruby, Go for languages and gRPC + Protobuf for communication.
• Showcase proficiency with low-level primitives such as IP converged networks, AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct connect, IAM role management and implementation
• Know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.
• Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
• Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic and demanding environment where change is the only constant.
• Ability to set priorities and balance multiple deadlines.

Nice to haves:

• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Job #: P61150

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About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Department: Product Engagement

The Role: Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

As a Staff Software Engineer at Gemini, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex, high-impact challenges that shape the future of digital assets. You’ll work with a passionate, self-driven team that collaborates closely with our Trading Systems engineering team to buildinnovative, scalable trading products. This is a chance to directly influence the direction of anemerging industry by developing secure, highly available systems that serve millions of users.If you're excited about tackling technical challenges that make a real difference to customers,clients, and our team, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex technical projects: Guide the technical direction of initiatives acrossmultiple teams and domains, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that align withbusiness objectives.
• Mentor and develop engineers: Act as a technical mentor for less experienced engineers, fostering professional growth and encouraging continuous learning across the team.
• Influence engineering culture: Promote best practices for code quality, security, and system design. Drive improvements in processes and tools that increase the team’s overall effectiveness.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, andother engineering leaders to ensure alignment on technical and product goals.
• Drive architecture decisions: Shape the long-term technical strategy by making high-impact architectural decisions that guide our platform's scalability and reliability.
• Advocate for operational excellence: Champion continuous improvements in performance, monitoring, and security, and ensure systems operate with a high degree of availability.
• Foster alignment across teams: Serve as a key point of contact to facilitate communication and collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of designingand delivering high-quality, scalable systems.
• Expertise in backend development, with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (we primarily use Scala on the backend, but we're open to candidates willing to learn).
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience with deploying and scaling applications in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-team technical projects from concept tocompletion, with a focus on long-term impact and scalability.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Ability to balance technical trade-offs between speed and quality while maintaining a strong focus on delivering business value.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design teams, and to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/orexchange systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in full-stack product development.

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $172,000 - $215,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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