Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 152,405 - 179,300; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company that builds the tools engineers rely on to code, test, ship, and operate software. You will join the Developer Infrastructure group and be matched to the best team, helping to create scalable, reliable platform services used by thousands of engineers.

You will ship backend features, own components end-to-end, and contribute to design discussions. The role requires 2+ years of production software experience, Go and cloud/container tech, and a customer-focused

Qualifications

• 2+ years building and operating production software.
• Experience with distributed systems and Go or similar language.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or containers.

Responsibilities

• Build, ship, and operate core developer-infrastructure services used by Coinbase engineers.
• Improve metrics like build/CI wall time, deploy speed, and test feedback.
• Own components end to end from implementation to monitoring and on-call.
• Write high-quality, production-ready code and ensure observability.
• Collaborate with customers across Coinbase to translate points into improvements.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive own work to completion.
• Share knowledge and raise the team’s code quality and velocity.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go programming

Backend development

Production ownership

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Customer-focused mindset

Observability

AI responsibly

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

OCI Containers

Datadog

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for \"good enough\", you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure group builds the tools and platforms that every Coinbase engineer relies on to build, test, ship, and operate software. Our teams collectively own the path from commit to production — scalable CI and build infrastructure, the platform that moves code safely to production, and the test infrastructure that gives engineers fast, trustworthy signals. We're hiring Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you'll be matched to the one that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land, you'll help build and operate foundational platform services used by all of Coinbase engineering, where a single improvement compounds across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work at a financial-grade reliability and security bar.

What you'll do:

• Build, ship, and help operate features and components of core developer-infrastructure services — spanning CI and build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure — that are fast, reliable, and secure by default at Coinbase scale.
• Contribute to improvements in the metrics every engineer feels: build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback time and flakiness.
• Own well-scoped components end to end — from implementation through testing, rollout, and monitoring — and participate in your team's on-call rotation.
• Write high-quality, well-tested, observable code, and build for production from day one.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Coinbase (your customers) to understand pain points and translate them into concrete platform improvements.
• Contribute to technical design discussions for team projects, and independently drive your own work items to completion.
• Grow your impact by sharing knowledge, giving thoughtful code reviews, and raising the quality bar around you.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years building and operating production software, with solid fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency (or a strong ability to ramp) in a language like Go (or similar).
• A track record of shipping backend or platform features that other engineers or services depend on, with ownership from implementation through production.
• Good operational instincts — you care about reliability, security, and observability, and you write code with production in mind.
• Clear communication and the ability to drive scoped projects to completion with limited guidance and collaborate effectively across a team.
• A customer-focused mindset: you measure success by the impact your systems have on other engineers.
• Exposure to a developer infrastructure or platform domain: CI/CD, build systems, deployment/release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity engineering.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or containers (Docker/OCI).
• Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog) to measure and improve system behavior.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$152,405 — $179,300 USD