Summary

The Infrastructure org supports the systems, services, and tooling at the foundation of Coinbase’s mission to increase economic freedom. We enable Coinbase engineers to design, develop, and operate services quickly, safely, securely and reliably. Infrastructure teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase.As a Software Engineer on the Observability team, you'll be critical to helping us re-invent the observability stack at Coinbase as we continue to grow and scale 10X-100X.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

1. Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
2. Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.
3. Collaborate with our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments. (Think Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.)
4. Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response
5. Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.
6. 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.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

1. You have at least 2+ years of software engineering experience
2. Experience working with Object Oriented languages like Golang, Java, and or C#
3. Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning
4. Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply
5. Strong interpersonal skills working with engineers from junior to principal levels
6. Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure

Nice to haves:

1. Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency
2. Experience with observability and monitoring systems such as Kibana, Datadog, etc.
3. Experience working in a highly regulated environment
4. Exposure to both NoSQL and SQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora.
5. Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
6. Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, 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, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range:

$147,900—$174,000 USD

Skills

• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• Software Engineering
• SQL