Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Datastores)

About the position

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Datastores (Infrastructure) team at Coinbase. The team's charter includes all OLTP databases including MongoDB, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Sharded SQL, analytics databases like Clickhouse and caching solutions like Redis/ memcache. The team builds and runs highly available, efficient, and high-performance distributed-database services that are being hit millions of times per second by the products at Coinbase.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached).
• Develop the future of our database systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Use your experience to guide other senior engineers and leadership on the right technical choices while anticipating the business’s needs, 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 our systems and processes.

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems.
• You have in-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment.
• You have experience in cloud distributed databases (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached).
• You have a solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning and reliability.
• You have backend service and tool development experience in Golang, Java or Python.
• You have 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.
• You have experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and are interested in making systems highly available.
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers).

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Target bonus
• Target equity