Software Engineer

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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency — it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure group builds the tools and platforms that every Coinbase engineer relies on to build, test, ship, and operate software. Teams in this group 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. Engineers in this group build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase at financial-grade reliability and security levels.

Responsibilities

• 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 metrics such as build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback time and flakiness.
• Own well-scoped components end to end — implementation through testing, rollout, and monitoring — and participate in 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 and independently drive work items to completion.
• Share knowledge, provide thoughtful code reviews, and raise the quality bar around you.

Requirements

• 2+ years building and operating production software, with solid fundamentals in distributed systems.
• Proficiency (or strong ability to ramp) in a language like Go (or similar).
• Track record of shipping backend or platform features with ownership from implementation through production.
• Good operational instincts: focus on reliability, security, and observability; write code with production in mind.
• Clear communication and ability to drive scoped projects to completion with limited guidance and collaborate effectively.
• Customer-focused mindset: measure success by the impact systems have on other engineers.
• Exposure to developer infrastructure or platform domains: 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.

Compensation

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $152,405 — $179,300 USD. Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Additional Information

• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities (contact: accommodations[at]coinbase.com).
• Application limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
• Coinbase is piloting AI tools for initial screening interviews and interview intelligence; AI will not be used to make employment decisions.