Senior Software Engineer, Reliability - Platform
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Finally, we seek people who are excited to learn about and live crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.
Ready to #LiveCrypto? Who you are:
- You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.
- You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0.
- You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
- You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
- You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
- You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Observability team. The Observability team sits within our Infrastructure organization. By joining this team, you'll be critical to helping us re-invent the observability stack at Coinbase as we continue to grow and scale 10X-100X.
The greater Infrastructure org supports the systems, services, and tooling at the foundation of Coinbase’s mission to increase economic freedom. We enable Coinbase engineers to design, develop, and operate services quickly, safely, securely and reliably. Infrastructure teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.
- Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
- 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.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- You have at least 5+ years of software engineering experience
- You have a strong understanding of data structures & algorithms, especially as they pertain to performance and reliability
- You are fluent in at least one programming language such as Golang, Ruby, Python or JavaScript
- You possess strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning
- You have the ability to debug complex systems and the willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
- You have experience working with containers / container orchestration systems (Docker, ECS, EKS, etc) and monitoring tools (DataDog, Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus)
- You have deep knowledge of UNIX/Linux system internals such as system calls, TCP/IP and debugging tools.
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply
- You have demonstrated critical thinking under pressure
Nice to haves:
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment
- 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.
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- Exposure to both NoSQL and SQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora.
- Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
Job #: GSRE05NA
Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
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Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Know Your Rights notice here. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
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- Extended Health Care Benefit - (coordinates with Provincial Coverage)
- Dental Care
- Vision Care
- Consult+ (Virtual Health Care)
- Life & Accident Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Remote-First Stipend
- Connections Stipend
- Learning and Development Allowance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Travel Medical Policy - Global Traveler
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy
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