Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance developer infrastructure and improve engineering productivity in a remote-first environment.
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Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design core developer infrastructure services
- Improve engineering productivity metrics
- Own services end to end
- Partner with engineering teams for platform improvements
- Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects
Must have
- 5+ years building and operating production software
- Proficiency in Go or a similar language
- Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems
- Strong operational instincts with a focus on reliability
- Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains
Nice to have
- Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes
- Depth in areas such as build systems or test optimization
- Experience with observability and performance tooling
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer in Developer Infrastructure at Coinbase focuses on designing and operating essential services that enhance the productivity of engineering teams. Key skills include expertise in distributed systems, proficiency in Go or similar languages, and experience with CI/CD and cloud platforms like Kubernetes and AWS. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong operational focus and a track record of delivering impactful backend systems. The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to drive improvements in build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 230 other open roles including Payments Risk Analyst I, Customer Support Specialist II, Complaints Analyst II.
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- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $186,065–$218,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. 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. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We own the path from commit to production, including CI and build infrastructure, deployment platforms, and test systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy feedback. We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land, you’ll build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, where improvements in build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability scale across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work with a high bar for reliability and security.
What you’ll do
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Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
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Improve key engineering productivity metrics, including build and CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality.
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Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
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Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements.
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Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production.
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Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction of the platform.
Required Skills and Experience:
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5+ years building and operating production software, with strong distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language.
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Track record of shipping high-impact backend or platform systems with ownership from design through production.
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Strong operational instincts with a focus on reliability, security, and observability.
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Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams.
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Customer-focused mindset, with success measured by impact on other engineers.
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Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains such as CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity.
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Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
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Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization.
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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.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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