Used Tools & Technologies
GenAIRequired Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Security @ 4
Go @ 4
Ruby @ 4
Kibana @ 4
Terraform @ 4
GCP @ 4
Datadog @ 4
AWS @ 4
Azure @ 4
Communication @ 4
Debugging @ 7
Observability @ 7
Generative AI @ 4
AI @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
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.”
As part of the Infra Reliability team, you will help Coinbase scale systems 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment. You will secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment systems that support thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.
Responsibilities
- Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.
- Work closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil.
- Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
- Improve canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents.
- Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.
- Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures.
- Strong system design and coding skills, with a track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code.
- Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
- Experience building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog.
- Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and sound judgment under pressure.
- Familiarity with rapid-growth environments.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025 — $256,500 USD.
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits referenced: medical, dental, vision, 401(k).
Work Model
- Remote-first (role listed as Remote - USA). Quarterly in-person "surges" are expected.