Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Institutional)

Who We Are

We’re Coinbase. We’re the world’s most trusted way to join the crypto revolution, serving more than 73 million accounts in more than 100 countries. 

Our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web 3.0 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.

Who You Are

• You’ve got good vibes. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there. 
• You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0. 
• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
• You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
• You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
• You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.

Role Responsibilities

As a Site Reliability Engineer within Coinbase Institutional, you'll be critical to helping engineering teams design, deploy, and manage reliable software across all our development and production environments.

You will work with engineering teams to set service-level objectives, improve observability, ensure production readiness, optimize service and system performance and facilitate incident response and follow up.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Be on Pager rotation to respond to Coinbase Prime incidents
• Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
• Partner with Engineering teams to teach and demonstrate industry best practices
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis and blameless retrospectives
• Automate operational tasks such as load testing
• Help partners design and implement reliable system architectures

Required Qualifications

• You have at least 5 years of combined experience in backend software or infrastructure
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
• Experience in Ruby, Go, and Terraform
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment
• Experience designing and building reliable systems
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training material

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance covered at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
• HSA plan with company seed
• Disability and Life Insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• $260 monthly Commuter Benefit
• Monthly Gym Benefit
• Volunteer Time Off
• Fertility Counseling and Benefits
• Learning and Development stipend
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Meals and Snacks provided onsite
• The option of getting paid in digital currency

Notice for Colorado applicants as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20). Target annual salary for this role performed in Colorado, is $175,100 + target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).