Coinbase · 23 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - (Platform)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$181K/yr - $212K/yr
6+ years expCoinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world and is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support their engineering teams in building reliable software. The role involves improving observability and reliability, collaborating with product teams, and mentoring engineers to foster a culture of reliability within the organization.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
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. (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
Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues
Qualification
Required
You have at least 6+ 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
This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours
Preferred
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
Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
Benefits
Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Company
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.45BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementTiger Global ManagementIVP
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
2024-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
CFO
Recent News
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