Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer Interns will build and ship production software for Coinbase’s crypto products and platforms. Responsibilities include writing tested code, collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers, participating in code reviews, owning an end-to-end project, and applying blockchain concepts to real-world engineering problems. Interns may work on consumer, developer, institutional, platform, security, or enterprise engineering teams.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure connecting protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs while leading multi-quarter chain integrations, re-architecture, and migration initiatives. Develop high-throughput distributed systems, decompose legacy architectures into microservices, improve latency, reliability, and cost, and participate in on-call ownership.

Build and operate foundational cloud and networking infrastructure across AWS and GCP. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, and security guardrails for product teams. Drive multi-cloud standardization, partner with infrastructure teams, investigate systemic issues, and improve reliability, scalability, compliance, cost, and operational efficiency.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer-infrastructure services for CI, builds, deployments, and testing. Improve build speed, deployment safety, test feedback, and reliability at Coinbase scale. Own services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call operations. Partner with engineering teams to identify pain points, deliver platform improvements, and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Lead backend architecture and hands-on engineering across Coinbase’s regulated futures commission merchant platform, including market data, order routing, settlement, reporting, risk, and liquidation. Drive replatforming away from legacy vendors, improve reliability and auditability, set engineering standards, collaborate with product, risk, operations, finance, and compliance, and mentor engineers. The role requires derivatives lifecycle expertise, distributed systems experience, and responsible use of generative AI.

Own and optimize ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and colocated environments. Design routing, multicast, segmentation, high-availability, firewall, VPN, observability, and automation solutions. Lead production changes, incident response, failover testing, and maintenance for 24/7 trading systems. Mentor engineers and collaborate with SRE, infrastructure, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Coinbase’s institutional exchange platform. Design ultra-low-latency, event-sourced trading systems spanning matching, risk, and market data across cloud and colocated environments. Drive cross-team alignment, quality standards, resilience, incident leadership, and safe production changes while contributing hands-on and mentoring senior engineers. The role requires ownership of multi-quarter initiatives and end-to-end trading platform architecture supporting high-volume institutional markets.

Leads a 5–10-person engineering team building Coinbase’s real-time market data and analytics platform. Owns the technical roadmap, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and delivers accurate, reliable, low-latency systems for trading, risk, clearing, and institutional clients. Responsibilities include market data ingestion and distribution, index and reference price calculation, funding rate computation, hiring, team development, architecture guidance, and maintaining high standards for operational rigor and engineering quality.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Improve reliability and performance through observability, on-call support, and incident response. Deliver tested production code and collaborate with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to advance Coinbase’s trading platform.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding-rate systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, failover design, and performance optimization for 24/7 high-throughput financial systems. Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and engineering leadership to define technical designs, milestones, and deliverables.