Senior Software Engineer, Dev Infra — Accelerate Builds

Coinbase; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We own the path from commit to production, including CI and build infrastructure, deployment platforms, and test systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy feedback.

We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams; you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with strong distributed systems fundamentals.
• Owns design, deployment, and operation of backend/platform services.
• Strong focus on reliability, security, and observability.
• Clear communication and ability to drive projects independently across teams.
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains (CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infra, or developer productivity).
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
• Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization.
• Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog).
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve engineering productivity metrics, including CI time, deploy speed, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements.
• Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production.
• Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction of the platform.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Communication

Customer impact

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Job description

Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We own the path from commit to production, including CI and build infrastructure, deployment platforms, and test systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy feedback.

We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams; you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests.