Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Routing team within the Infrastructure org. The Routing team is responsible for edge and internal routing for traffic to and between Coinbase services. This role will primarily be responsible for building secure and fault-tolerant internal routing mechanisms to enhance the reliability and efficiency of service-to-service traffic across our infrastructure.
Requirements
- At least 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication.
- Strong understanding and proficiency working with various low-level networking primitives and concepts, such as TCP, HTTP, TLS, and interprocess communications (UDS).
- Experience building services involving public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with practical knowledge of cloud networking concepts.
- Demonstrated experience operating critical, high-traffic infrastructure, including proficiency with monitor (via golden signals and service-specific metrics, logs, and traces), unix network debugging, scaling, and proactively addressing performance and reliability concerns.
- Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration
- Practical experience with Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate our edge and internal routing systems, including edge gateway, service mesh, service identity, service discovery and traffic management.
- Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer routing capabilities.
- Responsible for the performance, automation and standardization of edge and internal routing for Coinbase.
- Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our routing infrastructure.
- Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
- Communicate to gather requirements for routing 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.
Other
- In-person participation is required throughout the year.
- Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.
- Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
- Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic and demanding environment where change is the only constant.
- Ability to set priorities and balance multiple deadlines.
