Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Platform - Datastores)

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

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.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. 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.

The Infrastructure org supports the systems, services, and tooling at the foundation of Coinbase’s mission to increase economic freedom. We enable Coinbase engineers to design, develop, and operate services quickly, safely, securely and reliably.

• Infrastructure teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase.

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.

The team is responsible for advising customer teams on the right database technology for their needs and providing fully paved solutions. We are working on industry defining technology that meets the needs for Web3.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties) :

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.

What we look for in you (ie. job 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).

Job # : GIN05US

Pay Transparency Notice : Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility

Pay Range :

$186,065—$218,900 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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AI Disclosure

For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and / or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.

For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.

The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment . To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com