Software Engineer, Coinbase
Infrastructure, Platform, Datastores
$147.9-174k
+ Target bonus & equity
Digital currency exchange
Job no longer available
Digital currency exchange
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$147.9-174k
+ Target bonus & equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 2+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
- You have hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment
- You have experience in cloud distributed databases (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached)
- You have backend service and tool development experience in Golang, Java or Python
- You have strong communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
- You have experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and are interested in making systems highly available
- You have a solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning and reliability
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Datastores (Infrastructure) team at Coinbase. The team's charter includes all OLTP databases including MongoDB, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Sharded SQL, analytics databases like Clickhouse and caching solutions like Redis/ memcache
- The team builds and runs highly available, efficient, and high-performance distributed-database services that are being hit millions of times per second by the products at Coinbase
- Here is an example of Infrastructure the team built for Atlas. We have built the first (known to us) predictive auto scaling database technology in the industry working at Coinbase scale
- The team is responsible for advising customer teams on the right database technology for their needs and providing fully paved solutions. We are working on industry defining technology that meets the needs for Web3
- Design, implement and operate Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached)
- Develop the future of our database systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Use your experience to guide other engineers and leadership on the right technical choices while anticipating the business’s needs, and work with various vendors in the database/storage space
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support
- Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies in databases to continuously enhance our systems and processes
Our take
Coinbase has built a reputation as one of the most accessible entry points into the world of cryptocurrency. With features like crypto wallets, direct bank account linking, and merchant payment tools, it's helping bring crypto into the mainstream. But the company isn't just relying on its early success, it's evolving fast to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market.
For example, its doubled down on institutional clients, now serving as the custodian for the majority of approved Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. Its Prime platform also offers a full suite of services for hedge funds, asset managers, and financial institutions. As demand for regulated crypto products rise globally (particularly in Asia), Coinbase is ready to expand.
Its also making moves to engage with younger audiences, by partnering with Riot Games to sponsor global eSports events for League of Legends and Valorant. This partnership highlights Coinbase's strategy to integrate Web 3.0 technologies into mainstream entertainment, aiming to bridge the gap between gaming and cryptocurrency for a new generation of users.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2017
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $528.5m
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(Co-Founder & 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
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