Senior Reliability Engineer: Scale, Security & Deployments

Coinbase, Inc.; Dover (DE); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. As a Senior Software Engineer in Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team, you will help Coinbase scale reliability and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability projects that protect thousands of services and enable hundreds of daily releases. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will build scalable systems for secure configurations and secrets, advance canary deployments,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in production services.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Proven ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Kibana, Datadog).
• Experience communicating architecture decisions across teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
• Responsible use of AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of reliability projects to 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

Observability/Monitoring

Distributed systems

Tools

Kibana

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. As a Senior Software Engineer in Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team, you will help Coinbase scale reliability and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will lead high-impact reliability projects that protect thousands of services and enable hundreds of daily releases. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will build scalable systems for secure configurations and secrets, advance canary deployments,