Senior Software Engineer, Coinbase

• 5+ years building and operating production software, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and a primary language like Go (or similar)
• A track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems that other engineers or services depend on, with strong ownership from design through production
• Strong operational instincts — you care about reliability, security, and observability, and you build for production from day one
• Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently and collaborate across teams
• A customer-focused mindset: you measure success by the impact your systems have on other engineers

Desirable

• Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run their code
• 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 Senior 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 design and operate foundational platform services used by all of Coinbase engineering, where a single improvement in build speed, deploy safety, or test reliability compounds across thousands of engineers
• This is high-leverage, deep systems work at a financial-grade reliability and security bar
• Design, build, and operate 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
• Drive measurable improvements to the metrics every engineer feels: build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback time and flakiness
• Own your services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call
• Partner closely with engineering teams across Coinbase (your customers) to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements
• Lead technical design for ambitious, cross-cutting projects and see them through to production
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers and shaping the technical direction of the platform