Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform

Position Overview

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This role within the Reliability Engineering team focuses on supporting Coinbase engineering teams in building reliable software. The team proactively seeks industry best practices, educates engineers, and improves processes and automation to foster a culture of reliability. The team collaborates across the organization, encouraging self-starting and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.
• Improve observability, reliability, and availability by defining and measuring key metrics.
• Collaborate with the core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments (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 business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and hold blameless retrospectives.
• Educate, mentor, and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of systems and make reliability a core value of the Coinbase engineering culture.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of data structures & algorithms, especially as they pertain to performance and reliability.
• Fluent in at least one programming language such as Golang, Ruby, Python, or JavaScript.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Ability to debug complex systems and willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving them.

Company Information

The Platform Product Group engineers build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency, and quality. This group includes teams such as Product Foundations (Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure. Coinbase values intellectual curiosity, openness, diversity, positive energy, and blameless truth-seeking.