# Engineering Manager - Platform

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $218k – $257k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Streaming Pipelines, Event-Driven Architecture, Financial Systems, Transaction Processing, Full-Stack Development, Generative AI, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads a six-person engineering team responsible for Coinbase’s account and transaction-history infrastructure, internal tooling, and a major distributed-systems re-architecture. Requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years managing engineers and operating production systems at scale.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of six engineers across multiple levels, providing coaching on technical excellence, career development, and organizational impact.
- Drive the re-architecture of core account and transaction history systems to support new product primitives and increased throughput.
- Own the FinHub Tools roadmap, including internal UIs, dashboards, and agentic workflows that accelerate engineering and operations teams.
- Shape architectural decisions across distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling.
- Foster high-quality code and thorough design reviews.
- Collaborate with product, finance, and engineering leadership to define and execute quarterly roadmaps.
- Break complex infrastructure projects into iterative, shippable milestones.
- Partner with the talent organization to recruit exceptional engineers.
- Own engineering quality processes, including SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience and at least 2 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Proven experience delivering and operating distributed systems at scale in production.
- Ability to review code, lead incidents, and triage issues when needed.
- Demonstrated success translating ambiguous, long-horizon technical problems into concrete execution plans with measurable milestones.
- Experience with financial systems, event-driven architectures, or high-precision transaction processing where correctness and reliability are critical.
- Comfort leading teams spanning backend services, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling.
- Appreciation for developer and operator experience.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $218,025–$256,500 USD, excluding equity and bonus.
- Eligibility for equity and bonus compensation.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).

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