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. (Think 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 our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.
Educate, mentor and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of our systems and make reliability a core value of the Coinbase engineering culture.
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.
Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.
Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors
Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.
You have at least 6+ years of experience in software engineering.
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
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
A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours.
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 working in rapid growth environments
Experience in Ruby, Go, and Terraform
Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment
Experience designing and building reliable systems
Experience working in a highly regulated environment
Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials
Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).