Staff Enterprise Architect

As a Staff Enterprise Architect at Coinbase, you lead the Enterprise Architecture team in turning business objectives into technology decisions across Coinbase's business systems. You own key Enterprise Engineering initiatives such as Technical Debt, Application Portfolio Management, and the Integration Keys Mechanism, while contributing to the Architecture Forum that guides design patterns and governance across the organization.

What you'll do

• Provide leadership in developing, maintaining, and governing enterprise architecture guidelines and design patterns to ensure reliability and scalability of the application ecosystem
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps that guide the application ecosystem's evolution from current to future states, aligned with strategic and business capability roadmaps
• Drive application portfolio health programs focused on identifying, mitigating, and eliminating technical debt and security hardening
• Evaluate new applications and platforms to ensure alignment with the organization's technology, governance strategies, policies, and standards from business, application, data, solution, and technology perspectives
• Develop and maintain system diagrams illustrating the relationship between business value, capabilities, and technology
• Contribute to the Architecture Forum, facilitating collaboration, debate, and education on acceptable design patterns and solutions
• Lead analysis and evaluation of emerging technologies and market trends, assessing their impact and opportunities for enterprise architecture with a focus on digital capabilities supporting business strategy
• Work closely with solution architects to provide frameworks, guidelines, and best practices for implementing and configuring applications and database technologies
• Contribute to large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, overseeing technical aspects from current state assessments through delivery and execution

What you bring

• At least five years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Architecture with a proven track record of collaboration with domain, data, and security engineers as well as solution architects
• Demonstrated ability to develop, document, and publish Enterprise Architecture guidelines and design patterns that align with organizational objectives
• Proficiency in security best practices including authentication, authorization, encryption, integration key management, and logging
• Significant experience leading efforts to identify, monitor, and strategically reduce technical debt across the enterprise
• Strong background in setting and achieving Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that have broad and lasting impacts on architectural decisions and outcomes
• History of working within high-performing teams, offering constructive feedback, and fostering continuous improvement
• Skilled in handling complex escalations, effectively communicating trade-offs, and driving decisions to timely and successful resolutions
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to diverse stakeholders, including senior technical and business leaders, subject matter experts, peers, and technical delivery teams

Nice to have

• Passion for emerging technologies with strong enthusiasm for the crypto, blockchain, and NFT industries and understanding of their impact on the economy
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Anaplan, Workday, or Contentful
• Experience designing or enhancing the performance of high-load customer service platforms
• Experience developing quantitative architecture risk models, including measurement of technical debt and trade-offs using risk factors
• Knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including both Agile and non-Agile approaches
• Proficiency in at least one systems-level programming language, with Go highly preferred
• Familiarity with modern development frameworks and languages, including Go, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript
• Experience with SQL and modern data stores such as Snowflake
• Deep understanding of Salesforce architecture, including multi-org strategies and customization best practices
• Strong proficiency with Git, Confluence, Jira, LeanIX, or equivalent development and collaboration tools

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $193,970-$228,200 USD (varies by location)
• Total compensation includes equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a mission-driven company committed to increasing economic freedom. The organization builds and operates custom-developed applications, third-party integrations, and agentic automations to serve its business systems, with a focus on design patterns, technical debt, and security.