Engineering Manager, Platform

Coinbase

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Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
24 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $214k
This role $237k
$149k most similar roles pay here $280k

This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $161,812–$267,050 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $214k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $215,177–$253,150 across 50 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Platform

As an Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence), you will lead a team of six engineers within the FinHub Platform group. You will manage the development of account and transaction history infrastructure, including the universal account primitive and real-time transaction history engine. Your role involves re-architecting these foundational systems to support high throughput and new financial products like sub-accounts and retirement accounts. You will oversee the Finhub Tools roadmap, building internal UIs, dashboards, and agentic workflows while managing engineering quality processes such as incident response and SLA accountability. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, streaming pipelines, full-stack tooling, and event-driven architectures for high-precision transaction processing. You must be able to translate complex technical problems into execution plans while utilizing generative AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency and system reliability.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead and coach a team of six engineers on technical excellence and career development.
  • Drive the re-architecture of core account and transaction history systems for increased scale.
  • Manage the Finhub Tools roadmap to build internal UIs, dashboards, and agentic workflows.
  • Make architectural decisions for distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling.
  • Translate complex infrastructure projects into iterative, shippable milestones with product and finance leadership.
  • Recruit exceptional engineers and manage engineering quality processes like SLA accountability and incident response.
  • Implement generative AI tools to improve workflow efficiency and output quality.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • At least 2 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
  • Proven track record delivering and operating distributed systems at scale in production.
  • Hands-on ability to review code, lead incidents, and triage issues.
  • 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.
  • Comfort leading teams across backend services, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling.
  • Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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