Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability & Scale

Coinbase, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team within Platform to scale the service environment and reduce incidents. You'll own reliability projects across thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.

You will partner with high-priority services, build secure config management, improve canary deployments, and drive a culture of reliability across engineering teams. Strong collaboration and design skills are essential.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment.
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce 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

Distributed systems design

On-call readiness

AI tooling usage

Tools

Ruby

Go

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team within Platform to scale the service environment and reduce incidents. You'll own reliability projects across thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.

You will partner with high-priority services, build secure config management, improve canary deployments, and drive a culture of reliability across engineering teams. Strong collaboration and design skills are essential.