Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability

As part of the Infra Reliability team, you will help Coinbase scale systems 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment. You will secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment systems that support thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases.

What you'll do

• Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.
• Work closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil.
• Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
• Improve canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents.
• Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.
• Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.

• 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

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)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):: $218,025 USD - $256,500 USD

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

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.