Remote-First Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Core Reliability within the Infra Reliability team to help scale operations and reliability across a vast production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability initiatives, secure configurations, and drive safer deployment practices in a large, service-oriented platform. The role emphasizes collaboration with T0/T1 services, on-call readiness, and responsible use of AI to enhance workflows and reduce incidents.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures, including experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale, with a track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code.
• Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug complex production issues, tune system performance, and reduce incident frequency.
• Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, 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

Cloud platforms

Observability

Distributed systems

Tools

Kibana

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Core Reliability within the Infra Reliability team to help scale operations and reliability across a vast production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability initiatives, secure configurations, and drive safer deployment practices in a large, service-oriented platform. The role emphasizes collaboration with T0/T1 services, on-call readiness, and responsible use of AI to enhance workflows and reduce incidents.