Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Internal 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 internal routing capabilities and will be responsible for building secure and fault-tolerant internal routing mechanisms to enhance the reliability and efficiency of service-to-service traffic across our infrastructure.

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

• Produce professional documentation and diagrams to clearly and concisely communicate concepts and architectures to infrastructure colleagues, in addition to our users.
• Help design, build, and operate our internal routing systems and components, including service identity, service discovery, and traffic management.
• Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.
• 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.
• Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
• Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our routing infrastructure.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer routing capabilities.
• Manage and assist in the resolution of complicated technical problems and incidents, provide appropriate communication and escalation.
• Communicate to gather requirements for routing offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements.

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

• Know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Ruby or Go for languages and gRPC + Protobuf for communication.
• Ability to set priorities and balance multiple deadlines.
• 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.
• Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
• Strong understanding and proficiency working with various low-level networking primitives and concepts, such as TCP, HTTP, TLS, and interprocess communications (UDS).
• Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic and demanding environment where change is the only constant.
• Experience building services involving public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with practical knowledge of cloud networking concepts.
• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience

Nice to haves:

• Practical experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE and / or service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, etc)
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• Technical understanding of X.509 and Public Key Infrastructure
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
• Experience with distributed systems and understanding of concepts such as active-active cluster design.
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems

Job #: GIN05NA

Benefits at Coinbase

• Remote-First Stipend
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave
• The option of getting paid in digital currency
• Disability and Life Insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Fertility Counseling and Benefits
• Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
• Wellness Stipend
• Connections Stipend
• Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
• Volunteer Time Off

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