Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Routing

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.

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 Software Engineer to join the Routing team within the Infrastructure org. The Routing team is responsible for edge and internal routing for traffic between Coinbase services. This role will primarily be responsible for building a resilient, secure and performant platform to enhance the reliability and efficiency of traffic across our infrastructure.

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

• Design, build, and operate our edge and internal traffic management platform, including service mesh, edge gateway, service identity, service discovery and networking.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer routing capabilities.
• Responsible for the performance, automation and standardization of edge and internal routing for Coinbase.
• 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.
• 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 (ie. job requirements):

• At least 2+ years of software engineering experience
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go and gRPC + Protobuf.
• Strong understanding and proficiency working with various low-level networking primitives and concepts, such as TCP, HTTP, TLS, and interprocess communications (UDS).
• Experience building services with public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with practical knowledge of cloud networking concepts.
• Demonstrated experience operating critical, high-traffic infrastructure, including proficiency with monitoring (via golden signals and service-specific metrics, logs, and traces), Unix network debugging, scaling, and proactively addressing performance and reliability concerns.
• Know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.
• Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
• Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic and demanding environment where change is the only constant. 
• Ability to set priorities and balance multiple deadlines.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration
• Practical experience with Kubernetes
• Practical experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE
• Practical experience with Service Mesh (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc.)
• Practical experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly
• Technical understanding of X.509 and Public Key Infrastructure
• 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 #: GIN04NA