Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infra (Remote-First)

Coinbase; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure. The role focuses on building and operating core developer infrastructure that powers the entire Coinbase engineering stack, from CI to production and test systems.

You will contribute to high-leverage, reliable platform services used by thousands of engineers. You will own architecture, observe system health with metrics and alerts, and work across teams to improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.

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 turn them into platform improvements.
• Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production.
• Mentor engineers and shape the platform's technical direction.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Backend systems

Observability

Communication

Developer infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

AI in workflows

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure. The role focuses on building and operating core developer infrastructure that powers the entire Coinbase engineering stack, from CI to production and test systems.

You will contribute to high-leverage, reliable platform services used by thousands of engineers. You will own architecture, observe system health with metrics and alerts, and work across teams to improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability.