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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?
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.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the IT Operations Corporate Engineering team to build and maintain the tooling to secure and manage our fleet across multiple platforms (macOS, ChromeOS, Windows) and across various hardware types (laptop, desktop, mobile). A successful candidate will have demonstrated previous success in similar role(s) in rapidly growing, security-first environments. The right person is passionate about infrastructure as code and managing a diverse fleet leveraging open source solutions.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Partner across Coinbase to build and maintain performant, reliable, and secure system architectures to support a diverse fleet of macOS, iOS, Windows, ChromeOS and Android clients
- Provide client platform engineering and DevOps tooling subject matter expertise to adjacent IT, Security, and Engineering teams
- Bolster monitoring/observability across corporate endpoint management systems
- Own documentation across system lifecycle
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines for integrating changes and deploying to production in progressively tested environments
- Deliver configurations and maintain state using configuration management tools
- Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis and blameless retrospectives
- Support data-driven policy by shipping and querying streams of fleet data
What We Look For In You:
- 2+ years of experience managing enterprise fleets at scale
- Relevant experience in configuring and implementing modern open source endpoint management tooling such as: Puppet, Munki, Autopkg, NanoMDM/MicroMDM, Crypt
- Experience with macOS & Windows endpoint administration, including: installing, upgrading, and monitoring software and hardware, maintaining client OS and MDM (Mobile Device Management) software administration
- Familiarity with security tooling such as: zero trust networking, device encryption & key escrow, anti-malware tooling, PKI, patch management, and application allow/deny-listing
- Experience configuring and implementing modern IaC tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
- Fluency in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Experience using and managing AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment with IaC
- Understanding of CI/CD workflows, automation frameworks, and best practices
- Clear communication—demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts simply
- Self starter—possess a continuous learning mindset
- Demonstrate critical thinking under pressure
Nice To Haves:
- You participate and contribute to open-source projects
Position ID: P67920
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Pay Range:
$135,320—$159,200 USD
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Know Your Rights notice here. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).
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What We Do
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system.
Why Work With Us
We’ve taken a huge challenge and made it into our mission: To create an open financial system for the world. To achieve this, we are building a team of smart, creative, passionate optimists, the kind of people who see opportunity where others see roadblocks. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles.
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