Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability | Coinbase Jobs

Join the Infra Reliability team within Platform to help Coinbase scale 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across production. The team owns the systems that secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment infrastructure for thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases. You will lead high-impact reliability projects that make the service environment more resilient and safer for customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of reliability projects that improve resiliency across Coinbase’s service environment
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures
• Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale
• Track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug production issues and reduce incident frequency
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions clearly, in writing and verbally, to cross-functional stakeholders
• Willingness to join on-call rotations and respond to issues outside business hours
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight

Skills

Technical Skills

• Ruby, Go, Terraform
• AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Distributed systems design and operation
• Observability and monitoring (Kibana, Datadog)
• Deployment and release systems (canary releases)
• Secrets and configuration management

Soft Skills

• Clear written and verbal communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Ownership and leadership of reliability initiatives
• Responsible use of AI tools

Job Details

• Location: Remote-first (quarterly in-person “surges”)
• Job Type: Not specified
• Work Mode: Remote-first
• Salary: $186,065 - $197,010 USD annual base (varies by location, excludes equity and bonus)

Benefits

• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)