Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Remote - USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$218k-$257kDetected 26 days ago

GoRubyAWSGCPCloud PlatformsTerraformMachine LearningLLMsCommunication

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.

Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.
Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.
Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.
Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures.
Strong system design and coding skills, with a track record of writing high-quality, well-tested 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.
You will secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment systems that support thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.

7+ years of software engineering experience.
Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
Sound judgment under pressure and a willingness to debug and improve any layer of the stack.
Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
Experience building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog.
Familiarity with rapid-growth environments.
Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants.
The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation.
Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.

$218,025 - $256,500 USD
Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
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Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants.

At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
As part of the Infra Reliability team, you will help Coinbase scale systems 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment.

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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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