Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability

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Staff Software Engineer responsible for enhancing reliability and security in production environments. Collaborating on projects to scale systems at Coinbase.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.
  • Work closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil.
  • Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
  • Improve canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents.
  • Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.
  • Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures
  • Strong system design and coding skills, with a track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code
  • Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
  • Sound judgment under pressure and a willingness to debug and improve any layer of the stack
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to issues outside normal business hours
  • Experience building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog
  • Familiarity with rapid-growth environments
  • Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Benefits:

  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental, vision benefits
  • 401(k) plan