Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform)

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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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Routing team within the Infrastructure org. The Routing team is responsible for edge and internal routing for traffic to and between Coinbase services. This role will primarily be responsible for building secure and fault-tolerant internal routing mechanisms to enhance the reliability and efficiency of service-to-service traffic across our infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate our edge and internal routing systems, including edge gateway, service mesh, service identity, service discovery, and traffic management.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer routing capabilities.
• Responsible for the performance, automation, and standardization of edge and internal routing for Coinbase.
• Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our routing infrastructure.
• Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
• Communicate to gather requirements for routing offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements.
• Produce professional documentation and diagrams to clearly and concisely communicate concepts and architectures to infrastructure colleagues, in addition to our users.
• Manage and assist in the resolution of complicated technical problems and incidents, provide appropriate communication and escalation.
• Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, business partners, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication.
• Strong understanding and proficiency working with various low-level networking primitives and concepts, such as TCP, HTTP, TLS, and interprocess communications (UDS).
• Experience building services involving public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with practical knowledge of cloud networking concepts.
• Demonstrated experience operating critical, high-traffic infrastructure, including proficiency with monitor (via golden signals and service-specific metrics, logs, and traces).

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