Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Infra Core Reliability Team)

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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 with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Responsibilities

The Infra Core Reliability Team is a vital part of the Infrastructure (Platform) org responsible for paving the path for system’s reliability and scalability. We manage multiple company-wide projects like Scalability/Load testing, Configuration management system, and Canary based safe release capability to ensure company-wide system’s reliability and less customer impact.

We would like to add a Senior Software Engineer to help promote reliability culture across Coinbase. You would be helping with company-wide goals to scale the system by 10-20x and help secure service configurations & secrets by building/enhancing world class service configuration manager systems. Your customer focus skill will help reduce customer incidents by building/enhancing Safe Release (canary based deployment systems) capability and onboarding thousands of services that deploy hundreds of deployments on a daily basis.

Requirements

• You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply.
• Strong interpersonal skills working with Engineers from junior to principal levels.
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure.
• A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments.
• Experience in Ruby, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments.
• Experience designing and building reliable systems.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Benefits

• Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan 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.
• The option of getting paid in digital currency.