Senior Engineering Manager
About the role
Engineering Manager leading a team that builds reliable data services and privacy/governance capabilities for data at scale within Coinbase’s Data Platform.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Execution-focused approach: able to work through ambiguity, balance near-term delivery with long-term planning, and turn complex goals into actionable work.
- 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.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical insurance including Dental & Vision for employees and dependants
- Group Personal Accidental Insurance
- Group Term Life Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Allowance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Travel Medical Policy – Global Traveler
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous Time Off/Leave Policy

About Coinbase
Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
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