Senior Reliability Engineer, Core Systems (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 123,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability to scale reliability and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability projects that strengthen service configurations and protect thousands of services during daily releases. You should have 5+ years in production software, strong Ruby/Go/Terraform skills, and experience with AWS/GCP/Azure, observability tools, and communicating architecture decisions across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in production services.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog).
• Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional teams.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment in partnership with other engineering teams.
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational toil.
• Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
• Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents.
• Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams at Coinbase.

Skills

Ruby

Go

Terraform

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Observability/Monitoring (Datadog/Kib—

Architecture decisions communication

On-call rotations

AI responsibly usage

Tools

Kibana

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability to scale reliability and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability projects that strengthen service configurations and protect thousands of services during daily releases. You should have 5+ years in production software, strong Ruby/Go/Terraform skills, and experience with AWS/GCP/Azure, observability tools, and communicating architecture decisions across teams.