Staff Routing Platform Engineer: Scale Kubernetes & Envoy

Coinbase, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 218,000 - 257,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Compute Platform to own and evolve the routing layer across the service fleet. You will design and deliver scalable routing capabilities, working with Envoy, Istio, and Kubernetes to improve latency and reliability.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted tooling and cross-team collaboration with Security and Observability groups. You will help shape the paved-road developer experience for running applications at Coinbase, with a focus on

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering and infrastructure experience.
5+ years with routing technologies (reverse proxies, ingress controllers, CDN/WAF, service mesh).
Proficiency in Go, Python or Java for production services.
Experience scaling backend infra on AWS and working with CNCF stack (Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio).
Ability to diagnose complex distributed systems issues and own fixes.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and automate routing infrastructure for Kubernetes backends at scale.
Develop capabilities on Envoy-based proxies, Istio gateways, Ambient mesh, and SPIFFE auth.
Improve latency, reliability, and performance of routing across Coinbase production.
Enhance developer experience for operating applications with AI-driven tooling.
Collaborate with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams on platform requirements.