There's almost nothing concrete out there on Coinbase's E6/E7 comp so I'm sharing what I know from my own loop and two colleagues who joined at staff level in the last 12 months.
E6 / Staff SWE (my offer, remote): $245k base, $900k equity over 4 years, 15-20% bonus target. Year-1 total: roughly $430k if stock holds and bonus hits mid-target.
E6 from a colleague who joined ~10 months ago: $240k base, $850k equity, 20% bonus. Remote/distributed.
E7 / Principal I have one data point: $275k base, $1.5M equity over 4 years, 25% bonus target. That's a narrow band at that level so not sure how generalized it is.
A few structural things worth knowing at staff+: The equity is COIN stock, publicly traded, vesting quarterly after a one-year cliff. This is different from a startup where you're guessing at a future valuation. Annual refresh grants are more reliable at staff level. My colleague got a refresh at their one-year mark roughly equal to another year of their original grant. The bonus has a discretionary component tied to both personal and company performance. It has paid at or near target in recent years but the crypto market year matters a lot. Coinbase does have a small stock discount program if you want to buy COIN at a discount, separate from comp.
Principal (E7) is a small population. Getting there from staff takes a specific kind of scope: either shipping something cross-org that moves a major metric, or a public/technical contribution that gives them external signal.
The leveling conversation is worth having early. They have been known to level candidates conservatively initially. Push if you think you're E6 and they're slotting you as E5.