Senior Reliability Engineer — Core Systems (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, to help scale the platform’s reliability and deployment safety. You will lead high-impact projects that secure service configurations and strengthen deployment systems across thousands of services.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to enhance canary release capabilities and reduce incidents, ensuring a robust production environment for customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Proven ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools to debug production issues and reduce incidents.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features across Coinbase's service environment.
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture and improve scalability.
• Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
• Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities across thousands of services.
• Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams.

Skills

Ruby

Go

Terraform

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Tools

Kibana

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, to help scale the platform’s reliability and deployment safety. You will lead high-impact projects that secure service configurations and strengthen deployment systems across thousands of services.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to enhance canary release capabilities and reduce incidents, ensuring a robust production environment for customers.