Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Coinbase
Platform
+ target bonus and target equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Open for applications
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ target bonus and target equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
- You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices
- 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
- This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours
Desirable
- Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency
- Experience with observability and monitoring systems such as Kibana, Datadog, etc
- 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 materials
What the job involves
- Our Reliability Engineering team highly values people with intellectual curiosity and openness
- Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
- Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work
- Collaborate with our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments. (Think Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.)
- Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response
- Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements
- Educate, mentor and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of our systems and make reliability a core value of the Coinbase engineering culture
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose
- Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects
- Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs
- Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors
- Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues
Our take
Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.
Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.
Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.
Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $633.4m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
- Vision and dental care
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development budget
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Clear Communication - Share information efficiently, improving collaboration and productivity. Practice active listening while. Being candid and kind
- Positive Energy - Be optimistic about the future and determined to get there. Co-create solutions and work together to get there
- Continuous Learning - We view every situation as an opportunity to learn, We value giving and receiving regular feedback
- Efficient Execution - We complete high quality work quickly by working smarter, not harder. We prefer automation over manual work
- Act like an owner: We take 100% responsibility for achieving the mission. We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job. We run through brick walls.
- Customer focus: We are deeply focused on solving our customers’ problems with technology, by enabling them to acquire, store and use crypto. We strive to be the easiest to use, most trusted and most secure platform. In every decision we make, we ask, “How does this create more value for our customers?”
- Repeatable innovation: We are builders, leveraging technology to improve the world, constantly shipping ideas vs just discussing them. We know that companies must continually reinvent themselves to avoid stagnation. We have a high tolerance for failure, investing 10% of our resources in venture bets that are uncomfortably ambitious
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
People progressing
Joined as a Compliance Analyst, promoted to Compliance Partnerships Senior Associate in 15 months. 2 promotions later, she is now a Financial Crimes & Compliance Manager.
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