Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Observability)

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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.

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 the core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (including 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 accountable the engineering team to improve system reliability and embed reliability as a core value in engineering culture.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience working with Object Oriented languages like Golang, Java, and/or C#.
• 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.

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.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Exposure to NoSQL and SQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora.
• Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments.
• Crypto-forward experience including interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions.
• 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 to get paid in digital currency.