Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform

CoinbaseNorth AmericaSenior5+ years experienceDevOps & Infrastructure

The role

Coinbase is hiring a senior software engineer for its Compute Platform team, which runs the Kubernetes-based infrastructure every Coinbase service uses. The role is remote in the US, with quarterly in-person working sessions.

What you will do

  • Build and run Kubernetes cluster management tooling and automation
  • Build developer tooling for deploying and operating services
  • Ship new compute features such as cron jobs and automated right-sizing
  • Reduce toil and on-call load and improve observability

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of software engineering
  • 3+ years building and running Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
  • Proficient in Go, Python or Java
  • Hands-on AWS or GCP experience (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC)
  • CNCF tools such as Helm, Prometheus, ArgoCD or Envoy

What they offer

  • Equity and bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental and vision
  • 401(k)
  • Quarterly in-person team sessions

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Coinbase's careers page behind the apply button.

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