Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability — Scale & Secure

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 121,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, you will lead high-impact projects to improve reliability and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will collaborate with T0/T1 services to boost scalability, secure configurations and secrets, and reduce incidents. Strong design and coding skills in Ruby, Go, Terraform and cloud platforms are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering building production services in SOA.
• Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems with production-quality code.
• Experience with observability tools (Kibana, Datadog) to debug incidents.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of reliability projects to improve resiliency across the service environment.
• Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture and improve scalability.
• Build and enhance systems that manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
• Improve canary-based release systems and expansion of deployment capabilities.
• Drive reliability best practices and culture across engineering teams.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Ruby

Terraform

Cloud platforms

Observability

Architecture decisions

On-call

Tools

Kibana

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability, you will lead high-impact projects to improve reliability and deployment safety across our production environment.

You will collaborate with T0/T1 services to boost scalability, secure configurations and secrets, and reduce incidents. Strong design and coding skills in Ruby, Go, Terraform and cloud platforms are essential.