Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Infra Reliability team within Platform at Coinbase, you'll help scale the company 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across the production environment. You'll lead high-impact reliability projects that make Coinbase's service environment more resilient and safer for customers, owning systems that secure service configurations and secrets, reduce incidents, and strengthen deployment infrastructure supporting thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.

What you'll do

• Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment in partnership with other engineering teams.
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational toil.
• Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
• Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents.
• Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams at Coinbase.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures, including experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale, with a track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code.
• Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Kibana and Datadog to debug complex production issues, tune system performance, and reduce incident frequency.
• Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
• Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

What we offer

• Base salary of $186,065-$197,010 USD annually (varies by location), plus eligibility for equity and bonus.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Remote-first work environment with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions for intense collaborative working.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the infrastructure for economic freedom. The company is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world and operates at a high bar with an intense environment focused on impact.