Senior Site Reliability Engineer - (Institutional)

Details

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

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We are building an onchain platform and the future global financial system. This role sits on the Institutional Product Group supporting institutional products (Prime, Prime - Custody Only, Prime Web3 Wallet, Commerce, Exchange, Advanced Trade) and specifically the Institutional Prime Trading, Derivatives team that powers listed Futures trading (FCM).

Responsibilities

• Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics.
• Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operational work.
• Collaborate with core infrastructure teams to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (examples: Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2).
• Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response.
• Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.
• Educate, mentor and hold engineering teams accountable to improve system reliability and embed reliability into engineering culture.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Debug very difficult technical problems and improve systems to be easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
• Review feature designs within your product area and across the company 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 an on-call rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues outside regular business hours.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services and composing service oriented architectures.
• Strong technical skills in system design and coding; you write high-quality, well-tested code.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Strong interpersonal skills working with engineers from junior to principal levels.
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure and willingness to dive into any layer of the stack.
• This role requires on-call availability for issues outside regular business hours.

Nice to haves

• Experience designing and building reliable systems for high throughput and low latency.
• Experience with observability and monitoring systems such as Kibana and Datadog.
• Familiarity with rapid growth environments and working in highly regulated environments.
• Experience with Ruby and/or Go and Terraform.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
• Crypto-forward experience, including onchain activity (interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services).

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period.
• 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 and option to get paid in digital currency.

Pay & additional information

• Job #: GISRE05US
• Pay Range: $140,250 — $165,000 USD (target bonus + target equity + benefits may be included in full-time offers). Depending on your work location the target annual salary may vary.
• While many Coinbase roles are remote-first, in-person participation (team and company offsites) is required throughout the year.
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.

Commitment

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Global data privacy notices and additional applicant information are provided in the job posting.