Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

CoinbaseNorth AmericaSenior5+ years experienceDevOps & Infrastructure

The role

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team in Platform. The team improves reliability, security and deployment safety across thousands of services. Coinbase is remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions.

What you will do

  • Own design and delivery of reliability projects that make the service environment more resilient
  • Work with critical T0 and T1 services to improve scalability and cut operational toil
  • Build systems that manage service configurations and secrets securely at scale
  • Improve canary-based release systems to support hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents
  • Promote reliability practices across engineering teams

What they ask for

  • 5+ years designing, building and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures
  • Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform and a cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure)
  • Track record designing reliable, low-latency distributed systems and writing well-tested code
  • Experience with Kibana, Datadog or similar tools to debug production and reduce incidents
  • Ability to explain architecture decisions in writing and in person
  • Willingness to join on-call rotations, including outside business hours
  • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight

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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