Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & AI-Driven Ops

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute Platform team. You will own the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that every service at Coinbase runs on, built largely on CNCF technologies including Kubernetes and Istio.

You will design and ship tooling, automation, and net-new capabilities that empower hundreds of engineers to deploy and operate critical services. You will partner with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to raise the bar across the stack

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with CNCF ecosystem tools and applying them to solve infra problems.
• Experience applying AI tooling to infrastructure workflows to improve automation and efficiency.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating distributed infra systems and diagnosing failures.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and operation of Kubernetes cluster management tooling and automation.
• Build developer-facing tooling to simplify deploying and operating services at Coinbase.
• 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.
• Deliver net-new compute capabilities such as one-off jobs, cron scheduling, and deployment strategies.

Skills

Kubernetes & CNCF ecosystem

Distributed systems design

Automation & tooling

Tools

Helm

Prometheus

ArgoCD

Envoy

AWS / GCP

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute Platform team. You will own the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that every service at Coinbase runs on, built largely on CNCF technologies including Kubernetes and Istio.

You will design and ship tooling, automation, and net-new capabilities that empower hundreds of engineers to deploy and operate critical services. You will partner with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to raise the bar across the stack