Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Coinbase
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Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$218k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own CI/build systems and deployment orchestration across design, implementation, and production operation.
  • Identify high-leverage developer infrastructure problems, create technical roadmaps, and align dependent teams.
  • Improve build and CI wall time, deployment speed and safety, and developer feedback latency.
  • Lead large-scale platform migrations and other strategic cross-team initiatives through delivery and adoption.
  • Own SLOs, observability, on-call operations, reliability, and fast recovery for developer infrastructure.
  • Partner with engineering customers, engineering managers, and leadership while mentoring engineers through design reviews, pairing, and shared ownership.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language and direct experience with CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.
  • Experience designing and shipping high-impact backend or platform systems used by many engineers and services.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership on cross-team initiatives, including architectural direction and organization-wide alignment.
  • Deep operational expertise in reliability, observability, and recovery for production systems with broad impact.
  • Ability to lead ambiguous cross-functional problems, mentor engineers, and communicate clearly in writing and verbally.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
  • Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.

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Coinbase

About Coinbase

5,001-10,000 employees

Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.

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