About the position
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. Core Reliability team is a vital part of Infrastructure (Platform) org responsible for paving the path for system’s reliability and scalability. We manage multiple company wide projects like Scalability/Load testing, Configuration management system, Canary based safe release capability to ensure company wide system’s reliability and less customer impact.
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
- 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
Requirements
- You have at least 5+ 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
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, 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
Benefits
- Full time offers from Coinbase include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
