Remote-First Senior Platform Engineer: CI/CD & Build Systems

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking Senior Software Engineers for their Developer Infrastructure group. The role focuses on building and operating core platform services used by thousands of engineers, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.

You will own services end to end, with strong emphasis on reliability and security. The team collaborates across Coinbase to address pain points and drive platform improvements, mentoring others and guiding technical direction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency in Go or similar language.
• Reliability, security, and observability focus in delivery.
• Clear communication and ability to drive projects across teams.
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains like CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve key engineering productivity metrics, including build and CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements.
• Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production.
• Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction of the platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Backend systems

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Observability

Security

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Coinbase is seeking Senior Software Engineers for their Developer Infrastructure group. The role focuses on building and operating core platform services used by thousands of engineers, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.

You will own services end to end, with strong emphasis on reliability and security. The team collaborates across Coinbase to address pain points and drive platform improvements, mentoring others and guiding technical direction.