Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure - Core Infra Systems

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Infra Systems team within the Platform group you'll work across the cloud and networking foundations that Coinbase engineers rely on to run reliably at scale. The team owns the front door for GCP paved roads cloud networking and AWS-centered infrastructure patterns with a focus on standardization self-service and strong default guardrails. You'll work closely with the AWS GCP and Networking owners inside Core Infra Systems and partner with Compute Infra Security Routing and broader infrastructure stakeholders to deliver secure scalable and opinionated infrastructure that keeps Coinbase fast and resilient.

What you'll do:

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives that span the AWS GCP and Networking pillars inside Core Infra Systems driving alignment on standards tooling and operational patterns.
• Build and maintain self-service tooling and paved-road defaults that let product teams provision and operate cloud infrastructure safely without deep platform expertise.
• Partner with Compute Infra Security and Routing teams to embed guardrails into infrastructure provisioning ensuring every default meets Coinbase's bar for security compliance and reliability.
• Drive infrastructure standardization across Coinbase's multi-cloud environment reducing fragmentation and improving consistency in how teams consume cloud networking compute and shared platform primitives.
• Lead technical investigations and operational improvements across infrastructure boundaries working with broader stakeholders to resolve systemic issues and scale foundational systems.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP (networking compute or platform engineering).
• Hands-on experience with cloud networking primitives such as VPCs transit gateways DNS load balancers and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform Pulumi).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g. Go Python) used to build platform tooling and automation at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives partnering across multiple infrastructure domains to deliver cohesive production-ready outcomes.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency cost and quality.

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What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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