Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Platform Compute

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, seeking a candidate passionate about crypto and blockchain technology. The role involves building and operating the Kubernetes platform, focusing on improving scalability, reliability, and operational experience for services at Coinbase.

Responsibilities:

• Build tooling and automation to make management of our Kubernetes clusters easy and reliable
• Build tooling and automation to improve the developer and operational experience of working with Kubernetes for all users
• Operationalize our Kubernetes platform so that it continues to be automated and self-healing to prevent unnecessary oncall burden
• Develop net-new Kubernetes-related capabilities for service owners at Coinbase (e.g. one off jobs, cron, different deployment strategies, support for EFS, automated right sizing)
• Support our customers as they operate critical services for Coinbase in Kubernetes

Requirements:

• You have at least 5+ years of software engineering experience and experience with Kubernetes, or similar compute orchestration systems (e.g. mesos, nomad)
• Strong AWS and/or GCP infrastructure knowledge
• Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure
• Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution
• Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions
• Has experience scaling backend infrastructure