Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, on its Infra Reliability team within Platform. The role leads reliability projects and builds systems that improve production resiliency, securely manage service configurations and secrets, and make deployments safer across Coinbase’s services.

Responsibilities:

• Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment in partnership with other engineering teams
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational toil
• Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale
• Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents
• Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams at Coinbase

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures, including experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale, with a track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code
• Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug complex production issues, tune system performance, and reduce incident frequency
• Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional engineering stakeholders
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality