Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Platform (Routing)

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

• Design, build, and operate our edge and internal routing systems, including edge gateway, service mesh, service identity, service discovery and traffic management.
• 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 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication.
• 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 involving 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 monitor (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.