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Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase· Platform
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Remote$186.1k - $197kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the Infra Reliability team within Platform, focused on improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across Coinbase's production environment to scale 50x.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment in partnership with other engineering teams.
  • Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational toil.
  • Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
  • Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents.
  • Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams at Coinbase.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures, including experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
  • Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale, with a track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code.
  • Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug complex production issues, tune system performance, and reduce incident frequency.
  • Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Skills

Required:RubyGoTerraformCloud platformsObservability and monitoring

Benefits

  • Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Wellness Stipend
  • Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Fertility Counseling and Benefits
  • Generous Time off/Leave Policy
  • The option of getting paid in digital currency
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Coinbase

Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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