
Site Reliability Engineer - Platform
Skills & Stack
About the Role
Join Coinbase as a Site Reliability Engineer to uplift services and enhance operational excellence. You will work directly with product engineers to improve the reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of Coinbase systems.
About Coinbase
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency platform that provides secure and reliable services for buying, selling, and storing digital assets. The company is committed to building an open financial system that brings the world together.
What You'll Do
- 1Improve observability, reliability, and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
- 2Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work
- 3Collaborate with the core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize cloud deployments
- 4Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response
- 5Proactively find and analyze reliability problems and implement software to create step-function improvements
- 6Educate, mentor, and hold the engineering team accountable to improve system reliability
- 7Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs
- 8Debug extremely difficult technical problems and improve system performance
- 9Review feature designs for cross-cutting projects and ensure architectural clarity
- 10Build pipelines to integrate with third-party vendors
What We're Looking For
- 2-5 years of experience in software engineering
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services
- Strong technical skills in system design and coding
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong skills in observability, debugging, and performance tuning
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply
- Strong interpersonal skills working with engineers at all levels
- Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure
- Willingness to dive into understanding and improving any layer of the stack
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