Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer – Platform

at Coinbase

• Job title: Site Reliability Engineer – Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $186,065 - $218,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Docker, EC2, Kubernetes, Swift, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer at Coinbase optimizing cloud deployments and enhancing system reliability. Working with engineering teams to improve software reliability and performance across the organization.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are 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.

Requirements

• You have at least 6+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• You 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 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.
• This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work arrangements
• Paid time off
• Equity eligibility
• Bonus eligibility