Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom through the future of finance. The Developer Infrastructure group builds and operates foundational tools and platforms for CI, builds, deployments, and testing, and this role will develop secure, reliable services used by Coinbase engineers. The engineer will own platform components end to end, collaborate with internal engineering customers, and improve developer productivity and production reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build, ship, and help operate features and components of core developer-infrastructure services — spanning CI and build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure — that are fast, reliable, and secure by default at Coinbase scale
• Contribute to improvements in the metrics every engineer feels: build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback time and flakiness
• Own well-scoped components end to end — from implementation through testing, rollout, and monitoring — and participate in your team's on-call rotation
• Write high-quality, well-tested, observable code, and build for production from day one
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Coinbase (your customers) to understand pain points and translate them into concrete platform improvements
• Contribute to technical design discussions for team projects, and independently drive your own work items to completion
• Grow your impact by sharing knowledge, giving thoughtful code reviews, and raising the quality bar around you

Skills

• 2+ years building and operating production software, with solid fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency (or a strong ability to ramp) in a language like Go (or similar)
• A track record of shipping backend or platform features that other engineers or services depend on, with ownership from implementation through production
• Good operational instincts — you care about reliability, security, and observability, and you write code with production in mind
• Clear communication and the ability to drive scoped projects to completion with limited guidance and collaborate effectively across a team
• A customer-focused mindset: you measure success by the impact your systems have on other engineers
• Exposure to a developer infrastructure or platform domain: CI/CD, build systems, deployment/release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity engineering
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or containers (Docker/OCI)
• Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog) to measure and improve system behavior
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years building and operating production software, with solid fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency (or a strong ability to ramp) in a language like Go (or similar)
• A track record of shipping backend or platform features that other engineers or services depend on, with ownership from implementation through production
• Good operational instincts — you care about reliability, security, and observability, and you write code with production in mind
• Clear communication and the ability to drive scoped projects to completion with limited guidance and collaborate effectively across a team
• A customer-focused mindset: you measure success by the impact your systems have on other engineers
• Exposure to a developer infrastructure or platform domain: CI/CD, build systems, deployment/release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity engineering
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or containers (Docker/OCI)
• Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog) to measure and improve system behavior
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Equity eligibility
• Bonus eligibility
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Remote-first work arrangement
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”