Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Infra Core Reliability Team)

Team - 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 .

Role - We would like to add a Senior Software Engineer to help promote reliability culture across Coinbase. You would be helping company-wide goals to scale the system by 10-20x 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.

What we look for in you:

• 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:

• 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.

PID:- P70462