Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure – Platform, Datastores

September 28

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Coinbase

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Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows individuals and institutions to buy, sell, and trade various crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers advanced trading tools, institutional solutions, and a self-hosted wallet for storing and managing cryptocurrencies. With a strong focus on security and transparency, Coinbase provides a trusted platform used by millions globally. It supports various features including staking, earning rewards, and spending crypto through their cards. Additionally, Coinbase provides developer tools and APIs for building onchain applications, making it a comprehensive hub for engaging in the crypto economy.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

📋 Description

• Design, implement and operate Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached) • Build and run highly available, efficient, and high-performance distributed-database services that are hit millions of times per second • Advise customer teams on the right database technology and provide fully paved solutions • Develop the future of our database systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency • Guide other senior engineers and leadership on technical choices and work with various vendors in the database/storage space • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers • Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support • Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies in databases to continuously enhance systems and processes

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems • In-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment • Experience in cloud distributed databases (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached) • Solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning and reliability • Backend service and tool development experience in Golang, Java or Python • Strong communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders • (Nice to haves) Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services • (Nice to haves) Experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and interest in making systems highly available • (Nice to haves) Experience scaling through rapid company growth (from 10 to 100s of engineers)

🏖️ Benefits

• target bonus • target equity • benefits (including medical, dental, and vision) • Team and company-wide offsites held multiple times annually (attendance is expected and fully supported)