Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Datastores)

Details

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.

The Infrastructure org supports the systems, services, and tooling at the foundation of Coinbase’s mission. We enable Coinbase engineers to design, develop, and operate services quickly, safely, securely and reliably. Infrastructure teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase.

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Datastores (Infrastructure) team at Coinbase. The team's charter includes all OLTP databases including MongoDB, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Sharded SQL, analytics databases like Clickhouse and caching solutions like Redis / memcache. The team builds and runs highly available, efficient, and high-performance distributed-database services that are being hit millions of times per second by the products at Coinbase. The team is responsible for advising customer teams on the right database technology for their needs and providing fully paved solutions.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached).
• Develop the future of our database systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Guide other senior engineers and leadership on the right technical choices while anticipating the business’s needs, and work with various vendors in the database/storage space.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support.
• Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies in databases to continuously enhance our systems and processes.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems.
• In-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment.
• Experience in cloud distributed databases (examples called out: MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached).
• Solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning and reliability.
• Backend service and tool development experience in Golang, Java or Python.
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to haves

• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
• Experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and interest in making systems highly available.
• Experience growing rapidly in a company (from ~10 to 100s of engineers).

Compensation (Pay Transparency Notice)

Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range:

$180,625—$212,500 USD

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

Additional Notes

• Job #: GIN05US
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.