Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Core Reliability)

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 .

As a Senior Software Engineer you will help to promote reliability culture across Coinbase. You would be helping company-wide goals to scale the system by 10-50x and help secure service configurations & secrets by building/enhancing world class service configuration manager systems. Your customer focus skill will help reduce customer incidents by building/enhancing Safe Release (canary based deployment systems) capability and onboarding thousands of services and which deploys hundreds of deployments on a daily basis. 

• 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

What we look for in you (ie. job 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