Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineer

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

We seek a candidate passionate about crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system, eager to solve difficult problems, work with high-caliber colleagues, and actively seek feedback.

Our work culture is intense and requires in-person participation throughout the year, with multiple team and company-wide offsites.

Responsibilities

• Promote reliability culture across Coinbase.
• Help scale system by 10-20x and secure service configurations & secrets by building/enhancing service configuration manager systems.
• Reduce customer incidents by building/enhancing Safe Release (canary based deployment systems) capabilities and onboarding thousands of services deploying hundreds daily.
• Hire and retain top talent.
• Build trust and relationships with cross-functional teams to make embedded SRE programs successful.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and leadership to develop strategy and detailed roadmap.
• Actively listen to customer feedback and iterate for improvements.
• Provide technical leadership in architectural decisions and maintain a culture of high-quality code and processes.
• Own team's processes and services ensuring SLA adherence.
• Work closely with talent organization to recruit engineers aligned with Coinbase's culture.
• Coach direct reports to positively impact the organization and support their growth.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of software engineering/SRE experience, including 2+ years of management experience.
• Knowledge in SRE, DevOps, incident management, and reliability tooling like Canary, load testing.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling), networking basics, observability tools (Datadog), and troubleshooting.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Critical thinker under pressure.
• Willingness to understand, debug, and improve any layer of the stack.

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing and building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Experience with high severity incident management and on-call support.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring systems such as Kibana, Datadog.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments.
• Experience in highly regulated environments.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• Group personal accidental and term life insurance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend.
• Learning and development allowance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Global traveler travel medical policy.
• Fertility benefits.
• Generous time off/leave policy.