Senior Developer Infra Engineer - Scale Build Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will design, build, and operate core services spanning CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.

You will drive improvements in build speed, safety, and test reliability while owning end-to-end services, architecture, observability, and on-call work. Collaboration across teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems focus.
• Strong ownership from design through production for backend/platform systems.
• Reliability, security, and observability as core priorities.
• Ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams.
• Experience in developer infrastructure such as CI/CD, build systems, or test infra.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve engineering productivity metrics: CI time, deploy speed, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end: architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with Coinbase engineering teams to translate pain points into platform improvements.
• Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and mentor engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems fundamentals

Reliability engineering mindset

Clear communication

Independent project drive

Customer-focused mindset

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will design, build, and operate core services spanning CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.

You will drive improvements in build speed, safety, and test reliability while owning end-to-end services, architecture, observability, and on-call work. Collaboration across teams is essential.