Staff Software Engineer - Tax Engineering

Coinbase

Remote
Base: $217,900 - $217,900 cad; bonus/equity: not s...
Remote with required in-person participation for team and company-wide offsites throughout the year.
Real-time and offline tax calculation systems
Distributed systems architecture
Backend languages (go, python)
Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Tax Engineering team, which is responsible for developing systems that ensure compliance with tax regulations within a rapidly evolving financial landscape. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly in building distributed systems, and a passion for the mission of increasing economic freedom through crypto

Job Summary

  • Own the architecture and evolution of real-time and offline systems that calculate, track, and report taxes for crypto transactions at scale — ensuring correctness, low latency, and 24x7 availability.
  • Define multi-quarter technical strategies for the Tax Platform, identifying opportunities to simplify complexity, improve reliability, and expand capabilities as Coinbase launches new asset types and products.
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, data, compliance, and frontend teams to deliver tax features that meet regulatory requirements and delight customers — from annual tax reports to real-time gain/loss calculations.

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Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Tax Engineering team, which is responsible for developing systems that ensure compliance with tax regulations within a rapidly evolving financial landscape. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly in building distributed systems, and a passion for the mission of increasing economic freedom through crypto.

Salary

Base: $217,900 - $217,900 CAD; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Real-time and offline tax calculation systems
  • Distributed systems architecture
  • Backend languages (Go, Python)
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Data-intensive systems (Kafka, Clickhouse)
  • Technical leadership and mentorship
  • Cross-functional partnership

Nice-to-have

  • Passion for crypto and blockchain
  • Eagerness to solve hard problems
  • Seeking feedback for growth
  • Experience with tax systems
  • Familiarity with trading domains

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous, high-impact problems
  • Designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production-level distributed systems
  • Experience with microservices and REST/GraphQL API design
  • Experience with generative AI tools in daily workflows

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