About the Team:

We are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead one of our Identity teams.  Identity  is responsible for everything related to Coinbase customer accounts, like authentication, access, authorization, account recovery, onboarding, identity verification, etc.  In order to achieve our mission to increase economic freedom, we are looking to onboard the next 1 billion users to crypto, and  this team is responsible for the new initiative to expand the usage of crypto to businesses.

Identity lives within the Platform Product Group. The mission of the Platform Product Group  is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience. 

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Build and manage engineering teams, to guide the development of features, services, and infrastructure across both web and mobile.
• 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.

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

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
• Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
• You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
• Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role.

Nice to haves:

• You have experience building high availability, low latency services.
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
• 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 #: GPEM06US

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