Senior Compute Platform Engineer | Kubernetes & AI

Coinbase; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute Platform to own the core orchestration infra used by hundreds of services. You'll build tooling, automate deployments, and design new compute capabilities while partnering with Security and Observability teams to raise the bar across the stack.

You will work with Kubernetes, Istio, and CNCF tools in a remote-first company that values speed, reliability, and scale, with quarterly in-person surges to collaborate deeply with engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating Kubernetes or similar systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java with production-grade infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on with AWS and/or GCP services (EC2, IAM, VPC, networking) at scale.
• Ability to design, implement, and operate distributed infrastructure systems and diagnose complex failures.
• Experience with CNCF tools (Helm, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Envoy) and applying them to infrastructure challenges.
• Ability to apply AI tooling to workflows to boost automation and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Own design, build, and operation of Kubernetes cluster management tooling and automation.
• Build developer-facing tooling and workflows to improve interaction with Kubernetes, integrating AI-powered processes.
• Deliver new compute capabilities such as one-off jobs, cron scheduling, deployment strategies, and right-sizing.
• Automate toil, reduce on-call burden, and improve platform observability and incident response.
• Collaborate with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to meet security and uptime standards.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Go

Python

Java

AWS

GCP

AI tooling

CNCF tools

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

EKS

Helm

Prometheus

ArgoCD

Envoy

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute Platform to own the core orchestration infra used by hundreds of services. You'll build tooling, automate deployments, and design new compute capabilities while partnering with Security and Observability teams to raise the bar across the stack.

You will work with Kubernetes, Istio, and CNCF tools in a remote-first company that values speed, reliability, and scale, with quarterly in-person surges to collaborate deeply with engineers.