Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Platform (Compute)

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

• Build tooling and automation to make management of our Kubernetes clusters easy and reliable.
• Build tooling and automation to improve the developer and operational experience of working with Kubernetes for all users.
• Operationalize our Kubernetes platform so that it continues to be automated and self-healing to prevent unnecessary oncall burden.
• Develop net-new Kubernetes-related capabilities for service owners at Coinbase (e.g. one off jobs, cron, different deployment strategies, support for EFS, automated right sizing).
• Support our customers as they operate critical services for Coinbase in Kubernetes.

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

• You have at least 5+ years of software engineering experience and experience with Kubernetes, or similar compute orchestration systems (e.g. mesos, nomad)
• Strong AWS and/or GCP infrastructure knowledge
• Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure
• 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
• Has experience scaling backend infrastructure