Senior Software Engineer, Core Infra - Remote-First Cloud

Coinbase, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Infra Systems team within the Platform group. You will work across cloud foundations to run reliably at scale, focusing on standardization, self-service, and guardrails across AWS and GCP.

You will own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives, build and maintain self-service tooling, partner with Compute, Infra Security, and Routing to embed security and reliability into provisioning, and drive cohesion across our multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in production cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with cloud networking primitives such as VPCs, transit gateways, DNS, load balancers.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for platform tooling and automation.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives across multiple infrastructure domains.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives that span AWS, GCP, and Networking pillars inside Core Infra Systems, driving alignment on standards, tooling, and operational patterns.
• Build and maintain self-service tooling and paved-road defaults that let product teams provision and operate cloud infrastructure safely without deep platform expertise.
• Partner with Compute, Infra Security, and Routing teams to embed guardrails into infrastructure provisioning, ensuring every default meets security, compliance, and reliability standards.
• Drive infrastructure standardization across Coinbase’s multi-cloud environment, reducing fragmentation and improving consistency in cloud networking, compute, and shared primitives.
• Lead technical investigations and operational improvements across infrastructure boundaries, working with broader stakeholders to resolve systemic issues and scale foundational systems.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-team collaboration

Platform tooling

Go or Python

AI usage

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

GCP

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Infra Systems team within the Platform group. You will work across cloud foundations to run reliably at scale, focusing on standardization, self-service, and guardrails across AWS and GCP.

You will own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives, build and maintain self-service tooling, partner with Compute, Infra Security, and Routing to embed security and reliability into provisioning, and drive cohesion across our multi-cloud environment.