Site Reliability Engineer - Platform

Details

The Reliability Engineering team at Coinbase helps engineering teams build world-class reliable software. As a core service team, Reliability Engineers collaborate across the organization to improve observability, automation, and operational practices, mentor other engineers, and proactively reduce incidents by building tools and processes that make reliability a core engineering value.

Responsibilities

• Improve observability, reliability, and availability by defining and measuring key metrics.
• Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and reduce manual operations work.
• Collaborate with core infrastructure to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (examples called out: Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2).
• Work with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response.
• Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across business units and stack; design and implement software to create step-function improvements.
• Educate, mentor, and hold engineering teams accountable to improve system reliability.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Debug extremely difficult technical problems and make systems easier to deploy, operate, and diagnose.
• Review feature designs across product areas for cross-cutting impact; own security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of designs.
• Build pipelines to integrate with third-party vendors.
• Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services; familiarity with composing service-oriented architectures.
• Strong technical skills in system design and coding; write high-quality, well-tested code.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply.
• Strong interpersonal skills; experience collaborating with engineers from junior to principal levels.
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure and willingness to dive into any layer of the stack.
• This role requires on-call availability outside regular business hours.

Nice to haves

• Experience designing and building reliable systems for high throughput and low latency.
• Experience with observability/monitoring systems such as Kibana, Datadog, etc.
• Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments and highly regulated environments.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
• Crypto-forward experience: familiarity with onchain activity (interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps, blockchain-based services).

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 to get paid in digital currency.

Compensation

• Pay Range: $140,250 — $165,000 USD (target annual salary). Full-time offers also include target bonus, target equity, and benefits.

Additional Information

• Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only: in-person participation is required throughout the year (team and company offsites). #LI-Remote
• Job ID: GPSRE04US
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.