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.

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 teams to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (examples given: Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2).
• Collaborate with 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 make reliability a core engineering value.
• Write high quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Debug extremely difficult technical problems and make systems 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.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services; familiarity with composing service-oriented architectures.
• Strong technical skills for system design and coding; ability to write high quality, well-tested code.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning.
• Experience collaborating with engineers across levels; strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• 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 the power of 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, Datadog, etc.
• Familiarity with rapid growth environments and working in highly regulated environments.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.

Compensation & Additional Info

• Pay Range: $180,625—$218,900 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
• Job #: GPIN05US
• #LI-Remote

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans; Health Savings Account with company contributions; Disability and life insurance; 401(k) 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.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

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