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Job Description: • Build and manage engineering teams, to guide the development of features, services, and infrastructure • Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth. • Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap on a quarterly basis. Break down complex projects into smaller pieces and lead the iterative design and implementation process. • Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality code and engineering processes. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale. • Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products. • Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs. Requirements: • 9+ years of experience of managing critical datastores infrastructure with high transaction throughput, production reliability, big migration, and technology evolution • Track records of architecting and scaling databases with partitioning, sharding, distributed db, caching, router/proxy • Hands-on practice with Relational & NoSQL as well as some relevant engines, such as Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch • Real-world experience of design scale-out infra and triage performance/reliability issues in a distributed env; • Leadership in terms of advancing developer experience/velocity and enforcing standards via self-service tools • Proven experience of managing infra budget, contracts and vendors for efficiency, optimization and evolution roadmap • Effective communication for mandarin-but-instrumental technical aspects, guidelines and tradeoffs to other service/product teams and non-technical stakeholders • Effect way to build and nurture multiple sub teams with big vision/roadmap, “can do” spirit, and practical dependency & priorities Benefits: • bonus eligibility • equity eligibility • benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)) Apply tot his job

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