Senior Cloud Infra Engineer — Multi-Cloud & Self-Service

Coinbase, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance Core Infra Systems across AWS and GCP, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure. You will collaborate with multiple teams to standardize cloud networking, compute, and platform primitives while building self-service tooling that empowers product teams and enforces robust defaults.

The role emphasizes responsible AI usage, security, and reliability as it scales Coinbase’s multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud networking primitives such as VPCs, transit gateways, DNS, load balancers, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Python).
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross‑team technical initiatives, partnering across multiple infrastructure domains to deliver cohesive, production‑ready outcomes.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives spanning AWS, GCP, and Networking pillars inside Core Infra Systems.
• Build and maintain self-service tooling and paved-road defaults for safe cloud provisioning.
• Embed guardrails into infrastructure provisioning to meet security, compliance, and reliability standards.
• Drive infrastructure standardization across the multi-cloud environment to reduce fragmentation and improve consistency.
• Lead investigations and operational improvements across infrastructure boundaries to scale foundational systems.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

3+ years cloud infra production

VPCs, transit gateways, DNS, load baln

Terraform, Pulumi

Go or Python

Cross‑team initiatives

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance Core Infra Systems across AWS and GCP, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure. You will collaborate with multiple teams to standardize cloud networking, compute, and platform primitives while building self-service tooling that empowers product teams and enforces robust defaults.

The role emphasizes responsible AI usage, security, and reliability as it scales Coinbase’s multi-cloud environment.