Remote-First Senior Compute Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Jefferson City (MO); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute Platform to own the orchestration infrastructure used by hundreds of services. You will design tooling, automate workflows, and ship capabilities that enable scalable, reliable deployments.

You’ll partner with Security, Reliability, and Observability to raise the bar across the stack. You will build developer-facing tooling for Kubernetes usage, integrate AI-driven processes, and deliver new compute features like one-off jobs and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building/operating Kubernetes or similar systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Python or Java with production-grade infrastructure services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP in production at scale.
• Experience with CNCF tools (Helm, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Envoy).
• Ability to apply AI tooling to infrastructure workflows.
• Generative AI should be used with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own design, build, and operation of Kubernetes cluster management tooling and automation.
• Develop developer-facing tooling to improve Kubernetes interaction, with AI-driven processes.
• Deliver new compute capabilities (one-off jobs, cron scheduling, deployment strategies).
• Automate toil and improve observability and incident response.
• Collaborate with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to meet standards.

Skills

5+ years exp

Programming Go/Python/Java

Distributed systems design

AI tooling for infra

Security awareness

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

AWS

GCP

EKS

Helm

Prometheus

ArgoCD

Envoy

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute Platform to own the orchestration infrastructure used by hundreds of services. You will design tooling, automate workflows, and ship capabilities that enable scalable, reliable deployments.

You’ll partner with Security, Reliability, and Observability to raise the bar across the stack. You will build developer-facing tooling for Kubernetes usage, integrate AI-driven processes, and deliver new compute features like one-off jobs and