Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform & AI-Driven Infra

Coinbase; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you’ll own the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that every service at Coinbase runs on.

Built on CNCF technologies like Kubernetes and Istio, the platform underpins scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our product suite. You’ll design tooling and automation to empower hundreds of engineers while collaborating with Security and Observability teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with Kubernetes or similar compute orchestration.
• Proficient in Go, Python, or Java for production-grade infra services.
• Hands-on with AWS and/or GCP in large-scale production environments.
• Experience designing and operating distributed infrastructure systems.
• Familiar with CNCF tools and applying them to real infra problems.
• Ability to apply AI tooling to automate workflows and improve efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own design, build, and operation of Kubernetes cluster tooling and automation at scale.
• Develop developer-facing tooling to integrate AI-driven processes with Kubernetes.
• Deliver new compute capabilities like one-off jobs, cron scheduling, and deployment strategies.
• Improve platform observability, reduce toil, and streamline incident response.
• Collaborate with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to meet standards.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Distributed systems design

Go/Python/Java programming

AWS/GCP infrastructure

AI tooling for infrastructure

Ability to drive observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

ECS

Helm

Prometheus

ArgoCD

Envoy

AWS/GCP services

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you’ll own the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that every service at Coinbase runs on.

Built on CNCF technologies like Kubernetes and Istio, the platform underpins scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our product suite. You’ll design tooling and automation to empower hundreds of engineers while collaborating with Security and Observability teams.