Senior Software Engineer, Tax Engineering

As a Senior Software Engineer in Tax Engineering at Coinbase, you'll build the backend systems that power tax compliance across every trade, payment, and product Coinbase ships. Tax Engineering sits in the critical path when a user buys Bitcoin, sells an equity, earns staking rewards, or redeems an Advisor-managed strategy, calculating cost basis, tracking gain/loss, determining withholding obligations, and producing compliance reporting across every product line and legal entity globally. You'll work within the Consumer & Business group to build extensible primitives that make each new Coinbase launch possible, where scale and accuracy are both non-negotiable.

What you'll do

• Own the design and delivery of backend systems for cost basis tracking, gain/loss calculation, withholding automation, and tax reporting infrastructure
• Build new pipelines for broker reporting, automated withholding, and clearing integrations with partners as Coinbase expands into equities, margin, and options
• Partner with Product, Design, Tax, Trading, and Positions teams to take ambiguous problems from scoping through production rollout
• Drive an extensible tax architecture so every new product launch can plug into shared primitives without bespoke rework
• Strengthen engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship across the team

What you bring

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems with high-quality, well-tested code
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, with experience designing high-throughput services and data pipelines where correctness is critical
• A track record owning complex systems end-to-end, from design through production operation, in fast-changing domains
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional partners to translate ambiguous requirements into shipped solutions
• The ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $191,100 CAD, plus equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About Coinbase

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom. The company is a remote-first organization building the future of finance and cryptocurrency infrastructure.