Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure – Platform Compute

Coinbase

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $186,065 - $218,900 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build tooling and automation to make management of our Kubernetes clusters easy and reliable.
  • Build tooling and automation to improve the developer and operational experience of working with Kubernetes for all users.
  • Operationalize our Kubernetes platform so that it continues to be automated and self-healing to prevent unnecessary oncall burden.
  • Develop net-new Kubernetes-related capabilities for service owners at Coinbase (e.g. one off jobs, cron, different deployment strategies, support for EFS, automated right sizing).
  • Support our customers as they operate critical services for Coinbase in Kubernetes.

Requirements

  • You have at least 5+ years of software engineering experience and experience with Kubernetes, or similar compute orchestration systems (e.g. mesos, nomad)
  • Strong AWS and/or GCP infrastructure knowledge
  • Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure
  • 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
  • Has experience scaling backend infrastructure.
Benefits
  • Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAWSGCPbackend servicescompute orchestration systemsautomationself-healing systemsdeployment strategiesscaling backend infrastructureproblem solving
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsself-starterquality assuranceroot cause analysissolution-orientedbalancing business needscommunicationorganizational skillscollaborationadaptability