Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences ?
Security @ 4 Docker @ 4 Go @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Ruby @ 4 Kibana @ 4 Terraform @ 4 GCP @ 4 Datadog @ 4 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Communication @ 4 Service Oriented Architecture @ 4 Debugging @ 7 Ethereum @ 4Details
At Coinbase, the mission is to increase economic freedom worldwide by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.
Responsibilities
- Improve observability, reliability, and availability by defining and measuring key metrics.
- Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.
- Collaborate with core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.).
- Work with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response.
- Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across business units and stack; design and implement software for significant improvements.
- Educate, mentor, and hold engineering teams accountable to improve system reliability and embed reliability in Coinbase engineering culture.
- Write high quality, well tested code meeting customer needs.
- Debug complex technical problems to improve system and product performance, deployment, ownership, operation, and diagnosis.
- Review feature designs within product area and company-wide for cross-cutting projects.
- Own security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of designs.
- Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors.
- Participate in on-call support rotation for timely troubleshooting and urgent issue resolution.
Requirements
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services with service oriented architecture.
- Passion for building an open financial system.
- Strong technical skills in system design and coding.
- Excellent communication skills, bias toward open and transparent culture.
- Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply.
- Strong interpersonal skills working with engineers from junior to principal levels.
- Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure.
- Willingness to deeply understand, debug, and improve any layer of the stack.
- On-call availability to resolve issues outside regular business hours.
Nice to Haves
- Experience building reliable systems with high throughput and low latency.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools like Kibana, Datadog.
- Experience in rapid growth environments.
- Experience in Ruby, Go, Terraform.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or other cloud environments.
- Experience working in highly regulated environments.
- Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
- Crypto-forward experience: onchain activity with Ethereum, ENS, dApps, blockchain services.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans with generous employee contributions.
- Health Savings Account with company contributions.
- Disability and Life Insurance.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Wellness Stipend.
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement.
- Connections Stipend.
- Volunteer Time Off.
- Fertility Counseling and Benefits.
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy.
- Option to get paid in digital currency.
Additional Information
- Pay range: $140,250 - $165,000 USD per year plus target bonus, equity, and benefits.
- The role supports Coinbase's intense, high-performance culture with in-person participation expected.
- Institutional product group builds products for institutional customers including trading, staking, custody, and more.
- Active involvement in company-wide offsites and a culture of feedback and continuous improvement is required.