Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Coinbase is focused on increasing economic freedom through the future of finance. The Developer Infrastructure group builds and operates foundational systems for writing, validating, shipping, and running code, including CI, build, deployment, and test infrastructure. The Senior Software Engineer will design platform services, improve engineering productivity, own systems in production, lead cross-cutting projects, and mentor engineers.

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