Group Product Manager, Core Infra & Reliability Platform

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 243,865 - 286,900; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Group Product Manager for Core Infrastructure & Reliability to own the multi-year cloud strategy, drive compute, networking, and platform reliability, and partner with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance.

You will set platform-level SLOs, guide cost-efficient scaling across regions, and enable self-serve infra for product teams while maintaining regulatory compliance and secure operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, with 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure or reliability at scale.
• Track record of defining and executing multi-year infrastructure platform strategies with measurable improvements.
• Technical depth to engage with compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, multi-cloud architecture, and distributed systems design.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in regulated, high-trust environments.
• Ability to articulate complex infrastructure strategy, cost tradeoffs, and long-term platform bets to senior leadership.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Core Infrastructure, including compute, networking, multi-region and multi-cloud architecture.
• Define platform reliability, SLOs, capacity planning, failover capabilities, and incident reduction targets.
• Evaluate and adopt cloud infra technologies, balancing build-vs-buy decisions for cost and scalability.
• Align infra investments with business priorities, optimize cloud spend, and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Shape how product and engineering teams consume infrastructure with self-serve capabilities and improved developer experience.
• Translate infrastructure metrics into executive-level investment cases.

Skills

Product management

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

Infrastructure reliability

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud

Cost optimization

Cross-functional leadership

AI governance

Regulated environments

Tools

Kubernetes

Service mesh

IaC

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

The Core Infrastructure team within Coinbase's Platform product group builds the foundational systems that keep Coinbase online, secure, and scalable, owning the compute and networking platforms that power every product and service across the company. As the Group Product Manager for Core Infrastructure & Reliability, you'll own the product vision and multi-year strategy for Coinbase's cloud infrastructure, driving the design, operation, and scaling of the systems that underpin hundreds of billions of dollars in annual transaction volume. You'll partner deeply with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance to ensure Coinbase's infrastructure is reliable, cost-efficient, and resilient across multiple cloud environments and regions.

What you’ll do:

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Core Infrastructure, spanning compute, networking, multi-region and multi-cloud architecture, and platform reliability.
• Strengthen infrastructure reliability and resilience programs, defining platform-level SLOs, capacity planning, failover capabilities, and incident reduction targets to meet the uptime demands of a global financial platform.
• Lead evaluation and adoption of cloud infrastructure technologies (Kubernetes, service mesh, distributed storage, observability, infrastructure-as-code), making build-vs-buy decisions that balance cost, speed, and long-term scalability.
• Align infrastructure investments with business priorities, optimize cloud spend, and ensure infrastructure services meet regulatory and compliance requirements across operating jurisdictions.
• Shape how Coinbase's product and engineering teams consume infrastructure by building self-serve capabilities, improving developer experience, and reducing friction across provisioning, deployment, and observability workflows.
• Drive infrastructure cost strategy by analyzing utilization patterns, identifying the highest-leverage optimization opportunities, and translating infrastructure metrics into executive-level investment cases.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of product management experience, with 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure reliability at scale.
• Track record of defining and executing multi-year infrastructure platform strategies that delivered measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, or engineering velocity.
• Technical depth to engage with engineers on compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, multi-cloud architecture, and distributed systems design.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in regulated, high-trust environments.
• Proven ability to articulate complex infrastructure strategy, cost tradeoffs, and long-term platform bets to senior and executive leadership.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$243,865—$286,900 USD

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