Coinbase is seeking to improve the efficiency and velocity of its backend engineering by revitalizing its software development framework and application server components.
Requirements
- At least 2+ years of software engineering experience and experience with building large scale backend systems
- 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
- Experience scaling backend infrastructure
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
- 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.
Other
- Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
- 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.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related field
- Commitment to Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities
