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Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure group builds the tools and platforms that every Coinbase engineer relies on to build, test, ship, and operate software. Our teams collectively own the path from commit to production — scalable CI and build infrastructure, the platform that moves code safely to production, and the test infrastructure that gives engineers fast, trustworthy signals. We're hiring Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you'll be matched to the one that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land, you'll help build and operate foundational platform services used by all of Coinbase engineering, where a single improvement compounds across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work at a financial-grade reliability and security bar.
What you'll do:
- Build, ship, and help operate features and components of core developer-infrastructure services — spanning CI and build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure — that are fast, reliable, and secure by default at Coinbase scale.
- Contribute to improvements in the metrics every engineer feels: build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback time and flakiness.
- Own well-scoped components end to end — from implementation through testing, rollout, and monitoring — and participate in your team's on-call rotation.
- Write high-quality, well-tested, observable code, and build for production from day one.
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Coinbase (your customers) to understand pain points and translate them into concrete platform improvements.
- Contribute to technical design discussions for team projects, and independently drive your own work items to completion.
- Grow your impact by sharing knowledge, giving thoughtful code reviews, and raising the quality bar around you.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years building and operating production software, with solid fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency (or a strong ability to ramp) in a language like Go (or similar).
- A track record of shipping backend or platform features that other engineers or services depend on, with ownership from implementation through production.
- Good operational instincts — you care about reliability, security, and observability, and you write code with production in mind.
- Clear communication and the ability to drive scoped projects to completion with limited guidance and collaborate effectively across a team.
- A customer-focused mindset: you measure success by the impact your systems have on other engineers.
- Exposure to a developer infrastructure or platform domain: CI/CD, build systems, deployment/release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity engineering.
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or containers (Docker/OCI).
- Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog) to measure and improve system behavior.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
- Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial.
- Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.
- AI Disclosure: 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. 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. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.
Skills Required
- 2+ years building and operating production software with fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency or ability to ramp in Go (or similar).
- Track record of shipping backend or platform features with ownership from implementation through production.
- Good operational instincts around reliability, security, and observability; write production-ready code.
- Clear communication and ability to drive scoped projects to completion with limited guidance.
- Customer-focused mindset; measure success by impact on other engineers.
- Exposure to developer infrastructure or platform domains (CI/CD, build systems, deployment/release tooling, test infrastructure, developer productivity).
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or containers (Docker/OCI).
- Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog).
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
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How does Coinbase ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Coinbase uses a market-driven, pay-for-performance approach to keep pay and bonus plans competitive. Coinbase regularly benchmarks roles against leading technology and fintech companies using external market data and reviews its compensation programs on a recurring basis to ensure salary, bonus, and equity remain aligned with the broader market and business goals. Annual bonus and equity programs are tied to both company results and individual impact, so when Coinbase and its people perform, total rewards reflect that performance.
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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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