Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Coinbase

• You have at least 8 years of combined experience in backend software or infrastructure
• You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• 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

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