Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Core Reliability)

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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.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Core Reliability team is a vital part of 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, Canary based safe release capability to ensure company wide system’s reliability and less customer impact.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will help to promote reliability culture across Coinbase. You would be helping company-wide goals to scale the system by 10-50x 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 and which deploys hundreds of deployments on a daily basis.

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 our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments (examples referenced: Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2)
• Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response
• Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements
• Educate, mentor and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of our systems and make reliability a core value of the Coinbase engineering culture
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Debug extremely difficult technical problems, and make systems and products easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose
• Review feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects
• Own the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of designs
• Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services and composing service-oriented architectures
• Strong technical skills for system design and coding
• Proven experience with observability, debugging and performance tuning
• Comfortable educating and mentoring engineers from junior to principal levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure and a willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
• Passion for building an open financial system and belief in crypto/blockchain technologies

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency
• Experience with observability and monitoring systems such as Kibana and Datadog
• Familiarity with rapid growth environments
• Experience in Ruby, Go, and 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

Additional Information

• Job #: GPIN05US
• #LI-Remote
• Pay Range: $180,625 — $218,900 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include target bonus, target equity, and benefits)
• Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; some in-person participation and offsite attendance are expected

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
• Option of getting paid in digital currency