Senior Software Engineer, Dev Infra - Build Core Tools

Coinbase; Jackson (MS); On-site; 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’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests.

Wherever you land, you’ll build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, with a high bar for reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with strong distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficient in Go or a similar language and backend/system design ownership.
• Focus on reliability, security, and observability across services.
• Clear communicator able to drive projects independently across teams.
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains like CI/CD, build systems, or test infrastructure.
• Experience at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
• Familiarity with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve engineering productivity metrics including build/CI time, deploy speed, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end: architecture, observability, SLOs, on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams 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 platform's technical direction.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Backend systems

Observability

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

CI/CD

Release tooling

Security

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests.

Wherever you land, you’ll build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, with a high bar for reliability and security.