Senior Site Reliability Engineer - (Institutional)

Coinbase

full-time

Posted on: 7/31/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $140,250 - $165,000 per year

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AWSAzureCloudDockerEC2GoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesRubySwiftTerraformWeb3

About the role

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.

You have at least 7+ 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 for 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.