Remote Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 172,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, to help scale our production environment by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety. You will lead high-impact reliability projects, secure service configurations and secrets, and expand canary-based release systems across thousands of services.

The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong distributed systems knowledge, and expertise with observability tools like Datadog and Kibana.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services.
• Ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput distributed systems at scale.
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools (Datadog, Kibana) to debug incidents.
• Experience communicating architecture decisions to cross‑functional teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside business hours.

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.

Skills

On-call readiness

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Ruby

Go

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Datadog

Kibana

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, to help scale our production environment by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety. You will lead high-impact reliability projects, secure service configurations and secrets, and expand canary-based release systems across thousands of services.

The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong distributed systems knowledge, and expertise with observability tools like Datadog and Kibana.