Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure group, building and operating the systems engineers rely on to write, validate, ship and run code.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• 5+ years building and operating production software.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production.
• Strong operational instincts with a focus on reliability, security, and observability.
• Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams.
• Customer-focused mindset, with success measured by impact on other engineers.
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains such as CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity.
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
• Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization.
• Experience with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065 to $218,900 USD.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.