Software Engineer

Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure group builds the tools and platforms that every Coinbase engineer relies on to build test ship and operate software. Our teams collectively own the path from commit to production — scalable CI and build infrastructure the platform that moves code safely to production and the test infrastructure that gives engineers fast trustworthy signals. We're hiring Software Engineers across several teams in the group and you'll be matched to the one that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land you'll help build and operate foundational platform services used by all of Coinbase engineering where a single improvement compounds across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work at a financial-grade reliability and security bar.

What you'll do:

• 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 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.

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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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