Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer, Coinbase

• At least 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication
• Capable of independently driving large initiatives end-to-end while guiding more junior engineers to ensure project success
• Strong understanding of various low-level networking primitives such as TCP, HTTP, TLS, and interprocess communications (UDS)
• Extensive experience in diagnosing and resolving complex network and distributed systems issues
• 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), unix network debugging, scaling, and proactively addressing performance and reliability concerns
• Know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution
• Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic and demanding environment where change is the only constant
• Ability to set priorities and balance multiple deadlines

Desirable

• 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 Staff 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
• 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