56 applicants

Company

Coinbase · 1 day ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$212K/yr - $249K/yr

7+ years exp

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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.

Deugging 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

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System DesignProduction ServicesDebuggingPerformance TuningCloud EnvironmentsObservabilityRubyGoTerraformAWSGCPAzureCrypto Experience

Required

You have at least 7+ 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

Target bonus

Target equity

Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))

Company

Coinbase

Glassdoor

3.7

Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange and cryptocurrency wallet platform that allows users to buy, sell, and store various cryptocurrencies.

Founded in 2012

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.coinbase.com

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