Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability - Scale & Secure

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

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability in the Infra Reliability team within Platform. You will help Coinbase scale 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability projects that make our entire service environment more resilient and safer for customers. You will own the design and delivery of reliability projects, partner with critical services to improve architecture, and expand

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and operating production services in service-oriented architectures.
• Experience designing and operating reliable, high-throughput distributed systems at scale with well-tested production code.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug issues and reduce incidents.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to cross-functional teams.
• Comfort with on-call rotations and responding to issues outside business hours.
• Experience using AI responsibly to improve workflows, cost, and quality.

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

Ruby

Go

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability in the Infra Reliability team within Platform. You will help Coinbase scale 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability projects that make our entire service environment more resilient and safer for customers. You will own the design and delivery of reliability projects, partner with critical services to improve architecture, and expand