Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - 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 a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to join the Datastores (Infrastructure) team at Coinbase. The team is responsible for the real-time online storage services that power billions of dollars worth of customer transactions. The team builds and runs highly available, efficient, and high-performance distributed-database services that are being hit millions of times per second by the products at Coinbase.
The Datastores team is a part of our Infrastructure org in the Platform Product Group. The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by mulitple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience.
What you'll be doing:
- Design, implement and operate Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached).
- Develop the future of our database systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Use your experience to guide other senior engineers and leadership on the right technical choices while anticipating the business’s needs, and work with various vendors in the database/storage space.
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
- Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support
- Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies in databases to continuously enhance our systems and processes
What we look for in you:
- You have at least 8 years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems.
- You have in-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment.
- You have experience in cloud distributed databases (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached).
- You have a solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning and reliability.
- You have backend service and tool development experience in Golang, Java or Python
- You have strong communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Haves:
- You have experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and are interested in making systems highly available.
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
Job #: GIN06NA
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- Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan 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
- Remote-First Stipend
- Connections Stipend
- Volunteer Time Off
- Fertility Counseling and Benefits
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave
- The option of getting paid in digital currency
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