Staff Site Reliability Engineer - (Platform)

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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 our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.)
• Collaborate 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 for significant improvements
• Educate, mentor, and hold accountable the engineering team to improve system reliability and embed reliability as a core value
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet customer needs
• Debug extremely difficult technical problems, making systems better and easier to deploy, own, operate, and diagnose
• Review feature designs company-wide for cross-cutting projects
• Own security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of designs
• Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors
• Participate in on-call support rotation for urgent issue resolution

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services; knowledge of service oriented architecture
• Write high quality, well tested code
• Passion for building an open financial system uniting the world
• Strong technical skills in system design and coding
• Excellent written and verbal communication; open, transparent cultural practices
• Strong skills in observability, debugging and performance tuning
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply
• Interpersonal skills to work with engineers from junior to principal levels
• Critical thinking under pressure
• Willingness to dive into debugging and improving any layer of the stack
• On-call availability for swift issue resolution outside of regular business hours

Nice to haves

• Experience designing reliable, high throughput, low latency systems
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Kibana, Datadog
• Familiarity with rapid growth environments
• Experience with Ruby, Go, 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
• Crypto-forward experience including onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps or blockchain-based services

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision plans with generous employee contributions
• Health savings account with company contributions
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Wellness, mobile/internet and connections stipends
• Volunteer time off
• Fertility counseling and benefits
• Generous time off / leave policy
• Option to get paid in digital currency