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Posted December 14, 2021
Coinbase

Database Specialist

Coinbase
Remote - USA Remote Full Time

The Coinbase Exchange is one of the largest providers of liquidity in the crypto markets and serves a large and growing number of high quality market...

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The Coinbase Exchange is one of the largest providers of liquidity in the crypto markets and serves a large and growing number of high quality market participants, both retail and institutional. Within this space, our engineering team focuses on building and maintaining the core technology and infrastructure that powers the trading applications behind our Exchange platform. This role will work within an engineering team that is tasked with improving our trading systems as well as developing new products that will grow our market share and revenue.

What You'll Be Doing (i.e., Job Duties)

  • Build and scale our database infrastructure and data models to facilitate various Exchange functions such as clearing, settlement, order management and reporting
  • Collaborate with engineers from multiple streams to evolve our database architecture
  • Optimize the database and proactively build monitoring, reporting and alerting tools
  • Participate in all database related activities such as configuration, data migrations, upgrades and performance tuning
  • Evaluate best in class database products and issue recommendations for adoption
  • Provide production environment support as part of on-call support rotation

What We Look For In You (ie. Job Requirements)

  • Experience of working on mission critical, high-throughput databases
  • 5+ years of logical and physical database design and DBA experience
  • 3+ years of experience building database solutions in the cloud, either AWS or similar
  • Deep understanding and experience in relational database design and performance tuning (such as locks, query/index optimization) and Time Series databases
  • Strong experience in SQL, PL/SQL

Nice to haves

  • Crypto currency markets experience
  • Equities, Options, Futures or FX experience
  • Experience of building database solutions for applications that run 24x7
  • Experience working with Amazon Aurora, Dynamo, kdb+ or similar

Job ID: P86242

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 Pay Transparency, Employee Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law notices by clicking on their corresponding links. 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 send an e-mail to accommodations@ coinbase.com and 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). Please contact accommodations@ coinbase.com for additional information or to request accommodations.

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This listing expired on Jan 28. Applications are no longer accepted.

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