Senior Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure

Coinbase, Inc.; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is hiring Senior Software Engineers for Developer Infrastructure. You’ll design and operate core services used by thousands of engineers, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.

You’ll own end-to-end services, mentor others, and partner with teams to turn pain points into platform improvements. Expect a rigorous, impact-driven environment with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems expertise.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language and ownership from design to production.
• Strong reliability, security, and observability focus with on-call experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containerized deployments.
• Excellent communication and ability to drive projects independently.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve engineering productivity metrics like build time, deploy speed, safety, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call ops.
• Partner with Coinbase 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

Distributed systems

Go language

Backend systems

Observability (Datadog)

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Team collaboration

Communication

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is hiring Senior Software Engineers for Developer Infrastructure. You’ll design and operate core services used by thousands of engineers, improving build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.

You’ll own end-to-end services, mentor others, and partner with teams to turn pain points into platform improvements. Expect a rigorous, impact-driven environment with quarterly in-person surges.