Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Datastores)

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.

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 a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-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.

Who you are:

• You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there. 
• You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0. 
• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
• You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
• You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
• You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.

The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure. 

We are looking for a seasoned Staff 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. Here is an example of Infrastructure the team built for Atlas. We have built the first (known to us) predictive auto scaling database technology in the industry working at Coinbase scale.

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:

• 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:

• You have at least 8 years of industry experience with a proven track record of building and operating scalable