At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Most importantly, we seek people who are excited about crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.
Who you are:
Staff Software Engineer, SRE / Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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.
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Job #: GPSRE06US
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In 2012, Coinbase had the radical idea that anyone — anywhere — should be able to easily and securely access Bitcoin. We see cryptocurrency as the future of money and a catalyst for creating an open financial system around the world.
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