Senior Software Engineer
Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer
Coinbase
Runs a crypto exchange and stores digital assets
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” Learn more about working at Coinbase.
Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We own the path from commit to production, including CI and build infrastructure, deployment platforms, and test systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy feedback. We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land, you’ll build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, where improvements in build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability scale across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work with a high bar for reliability and security.
Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
Improve key engineering productivity metrics, including build and CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality.
Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements.
Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production.
Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction of the platform.
Required Skills and Experience:
5+ years building and operating production software, with strong distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language.
Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production.
Strong operational instincts with a focus on reliability, security, and observability.
Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams.
Customer-focused mindset, with success measured by impact on other engineers.
Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains such as CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity.
Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization.
Experience with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog.
Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): 186065 - 218900 USD
Coinbase runs a cryptocurrency exchange for individuals and institutions, alongside financial apps for trading stocks and other assets where available. Its consumer app brings buying, selling and account management together, while Coinbase Prime combines trading, custody and financing for institutional clients. Developers use its software interfaces to build wallets and payment services into their own applications, and customers link traditional bank accounts to move money into or out of crypto. Coinbase earns transaction fees and charges for subscriptions and services such as custody. It was founded in 2012 and is a US company without a physical headquarters.
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