Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability

ABOUT THE ROLE We're seeking a seasoned software engineer to join Coinbase's Infra Reliability team. As a key member of this team, you'll play a critical role in scaling our systems 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment. If you're passionate about building the future of finance and have a track record of designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures, we want to hear from you. WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Infra Reliability Engineer at Coinbase, you'll be responsible for: - Building and launching reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams - Working closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil - Building and enhancing systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale - Improving canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents - Expanding deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments - Partnering across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase WHAT YOU'LL NEED To succeed in this role, you'll need: - 7+ years of software engineering experience - 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 - 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 - Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality WHY REMOTE As a remote-first company, Coinbase offers the flexibility to work from anywhere while still collaborating with colleagues and contributing to the company's mission. You'll have the opportunity to participate in quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" to connect with your team and drive innovation. BENEFITS Coinbase offers a competitive annual base salary range of $218,025-$256,500 USD, as well as equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).