Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Infra Core Reliability

Details

Coinbase is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Reliability team within Infrastructure (Platform). The team focuses on improving system reliability and scalability across the company by owning initiatives such as scalability/load testing, configuration management systems, canary-based safe release capability, and service onboarding. This role helps scale systems 10-20x, secure service configurations and secrets, and reduce customer incidents by improving safe release (canary) deployments.

Responsibilities

• Promote a reliability-first culture across Coinbase and help deliver company-wide reliability goals.
• Design, build, scale, and maintain production services and platform capabilities (configuration management, secrets management, safe release/canary deployment systems).
• Work on large programs including scalability/load testing and onboarding thousands of services that deploy frequently.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in system design, debugging, observability, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with engineers across levels (junior to principal) and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Participate in in-person team and company offsites and other events as required.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proven experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services and composing service-oriented architectures.
• Strong skills in system design, coding, observability, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Ability and willingness to dive into any layer of the stack to understand, debug, and improve systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure and strong interpersonal skills.

Nice to haves

• Familiarity with working in rapid-growth environments.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments.
• Experience designing and building reliable systems and working in highly regulated environments.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
• Crypto-forward experience (onchain activity, interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps, blockchain-based services).

Location & Work Model

• Remote-first role but not remote-only: in-person participation is required throughout the year (team/company offsites); attendance is expected and supported. Listed as #LI-Remote.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: $186,065—$218,900 USD (target annual salary depending on work location). Full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and more).
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision plans, HSA contributions, disability and life insurance, 401(k) match, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend, volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits, generous time off/leave policy, and the option to be paid in digital currency.

Other Information

• Job #: GPBE05US
• Coinbase emphasizes mission alignment (increasing economic freedom) and looks for candidates passionate about crypto and blockchain.
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.
• Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for disabilities.
• Global privacy and applicant processing notices apply to candidates by location.