Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure - Compute Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team within the Platform group you'll own the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that every service at Coinbase runs on you'll own the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that every service at Coinbase runs on. Built largely on CNCF technologies including Kubernetes and Istio this platform underpins the scalability reliability and efficiency of our entire product suite. You'll design and ship tooling automation and net-new capabilities that make it easy for hundreds of engineers to deploy and operate critical services while partnering closely with Security Reliability and Observability teams to raise the bar across the stack.

What you'll do:

• Own the design build and operation of Kubernetes cluster management tooling and automation that keeps our compute platform reliable and self-healing at scale.
• Build developer-facing tooling and workflows that improve how engineers across Coinbase interact with Kubernetes with a heavy emphasis on integrating AI-driven processes and support.
• Deliver net-new compute capabilities for service owners such as one-off jobs cron scheduling deployment strategies EFS support and automated right-sizing.
• Drive operational excellence by automating toil reducing on-call burden and continuously improving platform observability and incident response.
• Partner with Security Reliability and Observability teams to ensure the compute platform meets Coinbase's standards for security uptime and performance.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including 3+ years building and operating Kubernetes or similar compute orchestration systems (e.g. Mesos Nomad ECS).
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP infrastructure services (e.g. EC2 EKS IAM VPC networking) in a production environment at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to design implement and operate distributed infrastructure systems including diagnosing complex failures and driving them to root-cause resolution.
• Hands-on experience with the CNCF ecosystem (e.g. Helm Prometheus ArgoCD Envoy) and a track record of applying these tools to solve real infrastructure problems.
• Proven ability to apply AI tooling to infrastructure workflows improving automation developer productivity or operational efficiency.
• 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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