Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Coinbase is a remote-first company committed to increasing economic freedom. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Developer Infrastructure group, responsible for building and operating core developer-infrastructure services that enhance the productivity of Coinbase engineers.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Direct experience in a developer infrastructure or platform domain: CI/CD, build systems, deployment/release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity engineering
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers (Docker/OCI)
• Domain specific depth such as Bazel/Buck-style build systems and remote execution, progressive delivery (e.g.canary/rollback), or test selection, sharding, and flaky-test detection
• Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog) to measure and improve system behavior
• Curiosity about crypto/web3 and a desire to learn the domain (deep prior knowledge not required); experience in a regulated or security-sensitive environment is a plus