Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Coinbase

• You have at least 7+ 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

• As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. You'll be critical to helping engineering teams at Coinbase design, deploy, and manage reliable software across all our development and production environments
• Your primary responsibilities will center around deep systems engineering and optimization - helping debug performance issues that negatively impact reliability, and defining our performance and reliability roadmaps for the team, and across the stack
• 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. There are multiple teams hiring including Infrastructure, Exchange, Coinbase Cloud, and Crypto. If you are open to exploring multiple team placements, please apply here
• Diving Deep into Linux Internals to identify performance issues with third party node client software, and developing strategies to address
• Act as a champion of reliability in the organization, and provide firepower and guidance to key partner teams to ensure reliability across the entire stack
• Work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and balance reliability, cost and feature tradeoffs
• Prioritize elimination of common operational issues in order to reduce operational TOIL and KTLO themes
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Embed with Engineering teams to teach and demonstrate industry best practices
• Improve observability, define and measure SLOs
• Facilitate incident response and conduct root cause analysis
• Automate operational tasks
• Help partners design and implement reliable system architectures