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The Core Infrastructure team within Coinbase's Platform product group builds the foundational systems that keep Coinbase online, secure, and scalable, owning the compute and networking platforms that power every product and service across the company. As the Group Product Manager for Core Infrastructure & Reliability, you'll own the product vision and multi-year strategy for Coinbase's cloud infrastructure, driving how we design, operate, and scale the systems that underpin hundreds of billions of dollars in annual transaction volume. You'll partner deeply with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance to ensure Coinbase's infrastructure is reliable, cost-efficient, and resilient across multiple regions and clouds.
What you’ll do:
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Core Infrastructure, spanning compute, networking, multi-region and multi-cloud architecture, and platform reliability.
- Drive infrastructure reliability and resilience programs, defining and tracking platform-level SLOs, capacity planning, failover capabilities, and incident reduction targets to ensure Coinbase's systems meet the uptime demands of a global financial platform.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of cloud infrastructure technologies (Kubernetes, service mesh, distributed storage, observability, infrastructure-as-code), making informed build-vs.-buy decisions that balance cost, performance, and operational complexity.
- Partner with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance to align infrastructure investments with business priorities, optimize cloud spend, and ensure infrastructure services meet regulatory and compliance requirements across all operating jurisdictions.
- Shape how Coinbase's product and engineering teams consume infrastructure by building self-serve capabilities, defining service standards, and reducing the overhead required for teams to deploy and operate reliable services at scale.
- Deepen understanding of infrastructure performance and cost dynamics by analyzing utilization patterns, identifying the highest-leverage optimization opportunities, and translating infrastructure metrics into executive-level investment cases.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years of product management experience, with significant experience owning strategy for cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure reliability at scale.
- Track record of defining and executing multi-year infrastructure platform strategies that delivered measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, or engineering velocity.
- Technical depth to engage with engineers on compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, multi-cloud architecture, and distributed systems design without needing everything explained.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across engineering, SRE, security, and finance in regulated, high-trust environments.
- Proven ability to articulate complex infrastructure strategy, cost tradeoffs, and long-term platform bets to senior and executive leadership with clarity and precision.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P76485
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AI DisclosureFor select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com
Skills Required
- 10+ years of product management experience owning cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure reliability strategy at scale.
- Proven track record defining and executing multi-year infrastructure platform strategies that improved reliability, cost efficiency, or engineering velocity.
- Technical depth to engage on compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, multi-cloud architecture, and distributed systems design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance in regulated, high-trust environments.
- Proven ability to articulate complex infrastructure strategy, cost tradeoffs, and long-term platform bets to senior and executive leadership.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and workflow improvements.
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