Coinbase aims to increase economic freedom in the world by building the future global financial system through blockchain technology. The Datastores team is responsible for engineering the critical database infrastructure that powers every product, transaction, and user interaction on a global scale.
Requirements
- You have at least 8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available distributed systems.
- You have deep, hands-on experience with incident response and disaster recovery for large-scale database deployments in a production environment.
- You have a solid understanding of distributed database architecture, performance tuning, and reliability.
- You have deep expertise in developing the automation and tooling required to manage large-scale, distributed database systems with minimal human intervention.
- You have thrived in a high-growth environment, ideally experiencing the scaling challenges of a company growing from 10 to 100s of engineers.
Responsibilities
- Architect and pioneer the next generation of Coinbase’s distributed database technologies (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB, ClickHouse, Redis), building and running highly available services that handle millions of requests per second.
- Drive the evolution of our core database systems, relentlessly pursuing improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency to meet the demands of a global user base.
- Serve as a technical leader and force multiplier, guiding senior engineers and leadership on critical architectural decisions while anticipating the future needs of the business.
- Uphold the highest standards of operational excellence, delivering world-class, well-tested code for our customers and taking ownership of system reliability through proactive maintenance and expert-level troubleshooting during on-call rotations.
- Be a forward-thinking expert, researching and integrating cutting-edge industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously enhance our systems and define the future of datastores for Web3.
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.
- You are a world-class communicator, capable of driving complex technical decisions and aligning senior engineers and leadership on a long-term vision.
- Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations.
- Coinbase is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
