Senior Platform & CI/CD Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring Senior Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will design, build, and operate core services that power CI, build, deployment, and test infrastructure used by thousands of engineers.

You’ll own end-to-end services with architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call responsibilities, while mentoring others and driving cross-team platform improvements. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and customer-focused impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software, with strong distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production.
• Strong operational instincts with a focus on reliability, security, and observability.
• Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams.
• Customer-focused mindset, with success measured by impact on other engineers.
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains such as CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity.
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
• Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization.
• Experience with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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 programming

Backend development

Observability

Internal tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is hiring Senior Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will design, build, and operate core services that power CI, build, deployment, and test infrastructure used by thousands of engineers.

You’ll own end-to-end services with architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call responsibilities, while mentoring others and driving cross-team platform improvements. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and customer-focused impact.