Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Infra Core Reliability Team)

Senior Software Engineer - Core Reliability

Team: Core Reliability team is a vital part of the Infrastructure (Platform) organization responsible for paving the path for system reliability and scalability. We manage multiple company-wide projects like Scalability/Load testing, Configuration management system, and Canary-based safe release capability to ensure company-wide system reliability and minimize customer impact.

Role Overview: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help promote a reliability culture across Coinbase. You will contribute to company-wide goals to scale the system by 10-20x and secure service configurations & secrets by building/enhancing world-class service configuration manager systems. Your customer focus will help reduce customer incidents by building/enhancing Safe Release (canary-based deployment systems) capabilities and onboarding thousands of services, supporting hundreds of deployments daily.

What we look for in you:

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proven experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, with a strong understanding of service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• Strong technical skills in system design and coding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a bias towards open, transparent cultural practices.
• Strong skills in observability, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers from junior to principal levels.
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure.
• A willingness to dive deep into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments.
• Experience in Ruby, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environments.
• Experience designing and building reliable systems.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with on-chain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

PID: P70462