Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset platform with a mission to increase economic freedom globally. The Core Reliability team within Infrastructure plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and scalability of the company's systems. This team manages key projects such as scalability testing, configuration management, and safe release capabilities. They are seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to scaling the system by 10-20x and enhancing service configuration management systems, ultimately reducing customer incidents through improvements to Safe Release deployments.

Responsibilities

• Build new services using Golang to meet critical product and business needs.
• Design scalable systems leveraging modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and leadership to translate product and technical vision into a quarterly roadmap.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code.
• Debug complex technical problems and improve system and product performance.
• Review feature designs for cross-cutting projects, ensuring security, safety, scale, and architectural clarity.
• Build pipelines to integrate with third-party vendors.

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services.
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture.
• Strong technical skills in system design and coding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for building an open financial system.

Nice to Haves

• Experience in rapid growth environments.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments.

Company Information

Coinbase was founded in 2012 and is committed to increasing economic freedom for more than 1 billion people globally. They have traded over $300 billion USD in a single quarter across 100+ countries. The Core Reliability team is focused on improving system reliability and scalability.