Design, build, and maintain software development framework and other shared libraries for Coinbase’s backend engineers.
Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer features.
Responsible for the performance, automation and standardization of gRPC services.
Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our backend engineering infrastructure.
Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
Communicate to gather requirements for backend development framework offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements.
Produce professional documentation and diagrams to clearly and concisely communicate concepts and architectures to infrastructure colleagues, in addition to our users.
Manage and assist in the resolution of complicated technical problems and incidents, provide appropriate communication and escalation.
Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization.
Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, business partners, stakeholders and vendors
Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.

Requirements

You have at least 2+ years of software engineering experience and experience with building large scale backend systems
Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication.
Experience building shared libraries, frameworks for large organizations.
Have experience refactoring legacy codebases, isolating and decommissioning unused logic
Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution
Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions
Have experience scaling backend infrastructure

Benefits

Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentbackend systemsGogRPCshared librariesframeworksrefactoringlegacy codebasesproblem solvingscaling infrastructure

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsself-starterquality assurancecommunicationcollaborationtechnical decision makingrequirement gatheringrelationship buildingproblem identificationsolution implementation