Senior Software Engineer — Dev Infra Platform, Remote-First

Coinbase, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring for Senior Software Engineers in the Developer Infrastructure group. You will join teams building and operating foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability at scale.

This is a high‑leverage role with a focus on reliability, security, and observability. You’ll land on a team matching your strengths, work in a remote-first company that values quarterly in-person surge sessions, and contribute

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production.
• Strong reliability, security, and observability focus.
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform and containers.
• Familiarity with observability and performance tools such as Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve key engineering productivity metrics including build/CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points and drive 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

Distributed systems

Go programming

Backend architecture

System reliability

Strong communication

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring for Senior Software Engineers in the Developer Infrastructure group. You will join teams building and operating foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability at scale.

This is a high‑leverage role with a focus on reliability, security, and observability. You’ll land on a team matching your strengths, work in a remote-first company that values quarterly in-person surge sessions, and contribute