Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Coinbase is a company dedicated to increasing economic freedom, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Developer Infrastructure group. This role involves building and operating core developer infrastructure services that enhance engineering productivity and reliability across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure
• Improve key engineering productivity metrics, including build and CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality
• Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations
• Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements
• Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production
• Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction of the platform

Requirements:

• 5+ years building and operating production software, with strong distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language
• Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production
• Strong operational instincts with a focus on reliability, security, and observability
• Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams
• Customer-focused mindset, with success measured by impact on other engineers
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains such as CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers
• Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization
• Experience with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality