Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About Coinbase

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 Developer Experience Org and Server Foundations Team

The vision of the Developer Experience org within Infrastructure is to make Coinbase the most enjoyable place in the world for developers to rapidly build and ship quality products. We aim to create experiences where velocity and product quality is high, and developers feel a sense of joy using our products and services every single day. We are looking for a Software Engineer, Developer Experience to join the Server Foundations team within Developer Experience. The team is responsible for empowering efficiency through foundational excellence. Our vision is to enable Coinbase backend engineering towards a future of rapid progress. We’re currently focused on revitalizing Coinbase's software development framework and other application server components, shared libraries etc. that will enable engineers to launch an application in a development environment within minutes.

What you’ll be doing (Job Duties)

• Design, build, and maintain software development framework and other shared libraries for Coinbase’s backend engineers.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer features.
• Responsible for the performance, automation and standardization of gRPC services.
• Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our backend engineering infrastructure.
• Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
• Communicate to gather requirements for backend development framework offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements.
• 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.
• Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, business partners, stakeholders and vendors.
• Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.

What we look for in you

• You have at least 2+ years of software engineering experience and experience with building large scale backend systems.
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication.
• Experience building shared libraries, frameworks for large organizations.
• Have experience refactoring legacy codebases, isolating and decommissioning unused logic.
• Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution.
• Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions.
• Have experience scaling backend infrastructure.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Backend Systems
• Go Programming Language
• gRPC
• Framework Development
• Shared Libraries
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Refactoring
• System Design
• Automation