Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Identity Platform

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced site reliability engineer (SRE) to join the IT Operations Corporate Engineering team to build and scale our identity and access management tooling. This is a dynamic role that combines traditional operations responsibilities and active contributions to the development and deployment of cloud-native applications, fostering a DevOps culture that emphasizes collaboration and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner across Coinbase to design, implement, and maintain performant, reliable, and secure system architectures


• Provide corporate IAM and DevOps tooling subject matter expertise to adjacent IT, Security, and Engineering teams


• Implement automation tooling and scripts to eliminate manual, repetitive tasks and reduce inefficiencies in system operations


• Create comprehensive documentation and runbooks that detail system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting steps across system lifecycle


• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for integrating changes and deploying to production in progressively tested environments


• Deliver configurations and maintain state using configuration management tools


• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and blameless retrospectives


• Define metrics and bolster monitoring/observability across corporate IAM systems


• Participate in regular on-call rotation to ensure 24x7 uptime for critical systems

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building, iterating upon, and maintaining corporate IAM systems


• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure and application development


• Deep domain-knowledge with prominent cloud identity provider(s): Okta, Duo, Auth0, EntraID, Ping, etc.


• Demonstrated success developing and implementing toolings that solves problems related to: identity lifecycle and provisioning, SSO, MFA, ABAC, RBAC, directory services, zero trust networking, PAM, and secrets management


• Experience configuring and implementing modern open source tooling such as: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker


• Fluency in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc.)


• Strong experience using and managing AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment with IaC


• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, automation frameworks, and best practices


• Clear communication—demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts simply


• Self starter—possess a continuous learning mindset


• Demonstrate critical thinking under pressure

About Coinbase

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We are building the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone, but if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines, there's no better place to be.