Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability

<div class="content-intro"><p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&amp;utm_source=coinbase">Coinbase</a>, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers">learn more about working at Coinbase</a>.</p></div><p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea" data-pm-slice="1 3 []">&nbsp;</p> <p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea" data-pm-slice="1 3 []">As part of the Infra Reliability team, you will help Coinbase scale systems 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment. You will secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment systems that support thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.</p> <h4 class="wnfdnth _1ibi0s33y _1ibi0s34u">&nbsp;</h4> <h4 class="wnfdnth _1ibi0s33y _1ibi0s34u">What you’ll do</h4> <ul class="wnfdnte"> <li class="wnfdntd _1ibi0s33w"> <p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea" style="line-height: 1;">Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.</p> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Work closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil.</li> </ul> <ul class="wnfdnte"> <li class="wnfdntd _1ibi0s33w" style="line-height: 1;"> <p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.</p> </li> <li class="wnfdntd _1ibi0s33w" style="line-height: 1;"> <p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Improve canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents.</p> </li> <li class="wnfdntd _1ibi0s33w" style="line-height: 1;"> <p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.</p> </li> <li class="wnfdntd _1ibi0s33w"> <p class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea" style="line-height: 1;">Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.</p> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Required Skills and Experience:</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">7+ years of software engineering experience.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Strong system design and coding skills, with a track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Sound judgment under pressure and a willingness to debug and improve any layer of the stack.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to issues outside normal business hours.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Experience building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Familiarity with rapid-growth environments.</li> <li class="wnfdntt _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.</li> <li>Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Pay Transparency Notice:</strong><strong><em> </em></strong>Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><div class="title">Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$218,025</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$256,500 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><ul> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><strong><em>Application Limit: </em></strong>Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.</li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer: </strong>Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>US Applicants: </strong>View<a href="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf"> Employee Rights</a>,<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf"> Know Your Rights</a>, and<a href="https://static-assets.coinbase.com/e-verify.pdf"> E-Verify</a> Notice of Participation.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Accommodations: </strong>If you are an individual with a disability