Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Job at Coinbase

Coinbase is hiring for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
• Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.
• Collaborate with our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments. (Think Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.)
• Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response
• Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.
• Educate, mentor and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of our systems and make reliability a core value of the Coinbase engineering culture.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
• Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.
• Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.
• Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors
• Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.

Requirements:

• You have at least 5+ 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 in 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.