Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infra — Build Fast

Coinbase, Inc.; Jefferson City (MO); 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. You’ll design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure, owning them end to end.

This role requires 5+ years building and operating production software with strong distributed systems fundamentals and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform,

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Ownership from design through production of backend/platform systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.

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 and 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 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

Backend systems

Observability

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. You’ll design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure, owning them end to end.

This role requires 5+ years building and operating production software with strong distributed systems fundamentals and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform,