Site Reliability Engineer, Coinbase

• You’ve got positive energy. 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
• A successful candidate will have demonstrated previous success in similar role(s) in rapidly growing, security-first environments
• The right person is passionate about infrastructure as code, open source tooling, and managing modern cloud identity providers
• 2+ years of experience building, iterating upon, and maintaining corporate IAM systems
• 2+ years of experience with operational procedures and application development
• Deep domain-knowledge with prominent cloud identity provider(s): Okta, Duo, Google Workspace, Azure AD, Ping, etc
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing toolings that solves problems related to: identity lifecycle and provisioning, SSO, MFA, ABAC, RBAC, directory services, zero trust networking, PAM, PIM, and secrets management
• Experience configuring and implementing modern open source tooling such as: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker
• Fluency in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc.)
• Strong experience using and managing AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment with IaC
• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, automation frameworks, and best practices
• Clear communication—demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts simply
• Self starter—possess a continuous learning mindset
• Demonstrate critical thinking under pressure

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced site reliability engineer (SRE) to join the IT Operations Corporate Engineering team to build and scale our identity and access management tooling
• Engage in a dynamic role that combines traditional operations responsibilities and active contributions to the development and deployment of cloud-native applications, fostering a DevOps culture that emphasizes collaboration and automation
• Partner across Coinbase to design, implement, and maintain performant, reliable, and secure system architectures
• Provide corporate IAM and DevOps tooling subject matter expertise to adjacent IT, Security, and Engineering teams
• Implement automation tooling and scripts to eliminate manual, repetitive tasks and reduce inefficiencies in system operations
• Create comprehensive documentation and runbooks that detail system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting steps across system lifecycle
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for integrating changes and deploying to production in progressively tested environments
• Deliver configurations and maintain state using configuration management tools
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis and blameless retrospectives
• Define metrics and bolster monitoring/observability across corporate IAM systems