Coinbase is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Reliability Engineering team. As a core service team, we support Coinbase engineering to build software that is world-class in reliability. You will work closely with the rest of engineering to gather best practices, advocate for reliability, and level up engineers through knowledge sharing and automation.
What You'll Do
- Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics.
- Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.
- Collaborate with the core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.).
- Collaborate with product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response.
- Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across business units and stack, then design and implement software for step-function improvements.
- Educate, mentor and hold accountable the engineering team to improve system reliability and make it a core value.
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet customer needs.
- Debug extremely difficult technical problems, and make systems and products 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.
What We're Looking For
- At least 6+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
- 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 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Docker
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- EC2
- Ruby
- Go
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
Team & Environment
This role is on a core service team working closely with the rest of engineering.
Benefits & Compensation
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Equity eligibility
- Bonus eligibility
- Compensation: $186,065—$218,900 USD + equity eligibility
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work model.
Coinbase 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.
