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 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. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. 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.

At Coinbase, maintaining a high security bar earns us the trust of millions of customers. They choose to buy, sell and store billions of dollars worth of digital assets in our products. As a DevOps Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team, you’ll build security services that reduce the friction that comes with maintaining a high security bar.

The Security Engineering team works closely with our customers (engineering and security teams) to build services that address challenges within our key orchestration program while protecting the security of digital assets. We’re looking for a DevOps Software Engineer to improve our development, testing, and release processes allowing continuous delivery of critical path software. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning and defining development and release cycle improvements impacting systems supporting our key orchestration program
• Architecting and developing continuous delivery for our key orchestration systems 
• Managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Understanding stakeholder needs and delivering solutions that address their objectives 
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
• Working with software engineers to ensure that solution meets expected outcome
• Writing high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

What we look for in you:

• Strong expertise in Docker and CI/CD automation
• Expertise in DevOps and agile principles
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with other software, hardware, security, and operational team members

Nice to haves: 

• Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
• Experience in working in a hardware and software environment with physical inventory management dependencies
• Worked with Golang, Ruby, Python, and Linux 
• Strong opinions on Testing, Software quality and SDLC
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems