Staff Software Engineer

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in aculture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to ourmission-focused approach to our work. Most importantly, we seek people who are excited about crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.

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.

You have at least 8 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.