Engineering Manager- Coinbase Analytics
Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy, and increase economic freedom around the world.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning. Second, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.
Read more about our values and culture here.
As the engineering manager for the Coinbase Blockchain Analytics product, you will enable both internal teams (Trust & Risk, Security, and many others) and third-party financial service customers to leverage blockchain data insights and signals. You should possess excellent leadership skills and have demonstrated experience bringing enterprise-grade services to market for financial service customers. Experience with crypto/blockchain, analytics, and assurance programs is also highly desirable for this role.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Responsible for the Coinbase analytics engineering team’s charter, strategy, execution, and working closely with the product, design, and leadership teams to co-create business strategy and go-to-market plans.
- Breaking down complex projects into smaller pieces and iterating with the team on their design and implementation.
- Setting and maintaining Service Level Agreements and Reliability metrics for the systems that your team owns.
- Working closely with the Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure security and scalability of the systems that your team owns.
- Incident response, managing on-call rotation, and runbook creation.
- Project and capacity planning for your team.
- Mentoring junior Engineering Managers and Tech leads.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- 7+ years of engineering management experience.
- Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Past experience with shipping complex/multi quarter projects.
- Familiarity with Blockchains and Cryptography.
- Experience creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
- Track record of maintaining reliability and uptime of mission critical systems.
- Excellent understanding of Infrastructure and Distributed systems.
- Being able to be hands-on when needed (e.g. take on-call rotations and review projects with engineers)
- Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning.
- Being able to balance security and usability with novel approaches to isolation and access.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent .
- Embodying our values: Positive energy, continuous learning, clear communication, efficient execution, and commitment to building an inclusive environment
Nice to haves:
- Experience working with Blockchain data
- Deep understanding of security best practices.
- Experience with Ruby or GoLang.
- Experience using Amazon Web Services, Kafka, Presto, Spark, Machine learning, etc.
- Advanced degree (Master’s and/or PhD) in math, computer science, statistics, engineering, or similar discipline.