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Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure
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.
What you’ll doDesign, 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.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years building and operating production software with strong fundamentals in distributed systems
- Primary language experience in Go (or similar)
- Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production
- Strong operational instincts focused on reliability, security, and observability; build for production from day one
- Ability to own services end-to-end including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities
- Clear written and verbal communication and ability to drive projects independently and collaborate across teams
- Customer-focused mindset, measuring success by impact on other engineers
- Direct experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains (CI/CD, build systems, deployment tooling, test infrastructure)
- Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers (Docker/OCI)
- Domain-specific experience such as Bazel/Buck-style build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test selection/sharding/flaky-test detection
- Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog)
- Curiosity about crypto/web3 or experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments
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What We Do
Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets, including trading, staking, safekeeping, spending, and fast, free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community, we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
Why Work With Us
We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world, to help people control their own wealth, start companies, have financial privacy, and participate in the global economy. And to get us there, we focus, build and move as a team.
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