At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Most importantly, we seek people who are excited about crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.
Who you are:
- You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.
- You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0.
- You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
- You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
- You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
- You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.
Staff Software Engineer, SRE / Staff Site Reliability Engineer
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. You'll be critical to helping engineering teams at Coinbase design, deploy, and manage reliable software across all our development and production environments.
Your primary responsibilities will center around deep systems engineering and optimization - helping debug performance issues that negatively impact reliability, and defining our performance and reliability roadmaps for the team, and across the stack.
You will work with engineering teams to set service-level objectives, improve observability, ensure production readiness, optimize service and system performance and facilitate incident response. There are multiple teams hiring including Infrastructure, Exchange, Coinbase Cloud, and Crypto. If you are open to exploring multiple team placements, please apply here.
What you’ll be doing (i.e. job duties):
- Diving Deep into Linux Internals to identify performance issues with third party node client software, and developing strategies to address
- Act as a champion of reliability in the organization, and provide firepower and guidance to key partner teams to ensure reliability across the entire stack.
- Work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and balance reliability, cost and feature tradeoffs
- Prioritize elimination of common operational issues in order to reduce operational TOIL and KTLO themes
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
- Embed with Engineering teams to teach and demonstrate industry best practices
- Improve observability, define and measure SLOs
- Facilitate incident response and conduct root cause analysis
- Automate operational tasks
- Help partners design and implement reliable system architectures
What we look for in you:
- You have at least 8 years of combined experience in backend software or infrastructure
- You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- 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 working directly with blockchains and protocols
- 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
Job #: GPSRE06US
Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Know Your Rights notice here. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).
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