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At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.
To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
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Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
- 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.
- You have at least 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience working with Object Oriented languages like Golang, Java, and or C#
- 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
- 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.
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- Exposure to both NoSQL and SQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora.
- Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
- Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
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