Senior Engineering Manager

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Coinbase, you'll lead the Data Platform team, which builds the foundations for storing, moving, managing, and using data at scale across storage, streaming, data lakes, analytics, and experimentation. You'll guide engineers in developing reliable data services and the privacy and governance capabilities that help teams use data responsibly.

What you'll do

• 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

What you bring

• 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
• An execution-focused approach: able to work through ambiguity, balance near-term delivery with long-term planning, and turn complex goals into actionable work
• A 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
• The ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a remote-first company on a mission to increase economic freedom. The Data Platform team builds foundational data infrastructure and the privacy and governance capabilities that enable responsible data use at scale across the organization.