Senior Platform Engineer: CI/CD, Build & Deploy Mastery

Coinbase, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); 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 foundational platform services used by thousands of engineers, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.

You’ll own projects end to end, mentor peers, and drive cross-team platform improvements. We value reliability, security, and observability, with a remote-first culture that blends quarterly in-person surges and collaborative sessions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Strong operational focus on reliability, security, and observability.
• Clear communication and ability to drive projects independently across teams.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve 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 systems

Observability

Communication

Delivery ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Containers

Job description

Coinbase is hiring Senior Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will design, build, and operate foundational platform services used by thousands of engineers, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.

You’ll own projects end to end, mentor peers, and drive cross-team platform improvements. We value reliability, security, and observability, with a remote-first culture that blends quarterly in-person surges and collaborative sessions.