Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Edge Routing

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 seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Routing team within the Infrastructure org. The Routing team is responsible for edge and internal routing for traffic to and between Coinbase services. This role is specific to our edge routing capabilities and will be responsible for building systems that reliably handle high volumes of external traffic and ensuring efficient and secure routing of that traffic.

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

• Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our routing infrastructure.
• Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
• Communicate to gather requirements for routing offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer routing capabilities.
• 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.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, business partners, stakeholders and vendors
• Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization.
• Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.
• Help design, build, and operate our internal routing systems and components, including service identity, service discovery, and traffic management.

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

• Strong understanding of HTTP primitives and tooling surrounding it such as CDNs, CORS, CSP, and cache-control.
• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
• Demonstrated experience operating critical, high-traffic infrastructure, including proficiency with monitor (via golden signals and service-specific metrics, logs, and traces), unix network debugging, scaling, and proactively addressing performance and reliability concerns.
• Strong understanding and proficiency working with various low-level networking primitives and concepts, such as TCP, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
• Familiarity with modern authentication schemes such as OAuth, JWTs, or cookies.
• Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic and demanding environment where change is the only constant.
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Ruby or Go for languages and gRPC + Protobuf for communication.
• Experience building services involving public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with practical knowledge of cloud networking concepts.
• Ability to set priorities and balance multiple deadlines.
• Know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.

Nice to haves:

• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems

Job #: GIN05NA