Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability
Remote - Canada · Senior
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About the role
- Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment in partnership with other engineering teams.
- Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational toil.
- Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
- Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents.
- Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams at Coinbase.
- Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale, with a track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
- If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here.
- This team owns the systems that secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment infrastructure supporting thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.
Requirements
- Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug complex production issues, tune system performance, and reduce incident frequency.
- Required Skills and Experience:
Skills
- Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
Compensation
- $191,100 - $191,100 CAD
- Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below.
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
Company info
- At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
- You'll lead high-impact reliability projects that make our entire service environment more resilient and safer for customers.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com.
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