Coinbase is looking to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. The Developer Experience org within Infrastructure aims to make Coinbase the most enjoyable place in the world for developers to rapidly build and ship quality products. The Server Foundations team is focused on empowering efficiency through foundational excellence and revitalizing Coinbase's software development framework and other application server components to enable engineers to launch applications within minutes.
Requirements
- You have at least 2+ years of software engineering experience and experience with building large scale backend systems
- Showcase 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
- Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution
- Have experience scaling backend infrastructure
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.
- Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our backend engineering infrastructure.
- Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
- Communicate to gather requirements for backend development framework 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.
- Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions
- Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.
