Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Platform Compute

Job Overview

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We are seeking a passionate candidate who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. This is an intense work culture that demands the best of its employees as we build the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

Key Responsibilities

• Build tooling and automation to make management of our Kubernetes clusters easy and reliable.


• Build tooling and automation to improve the developer and operational experience of working with Kubernetes for all users.


• Operationalize our Kubernetes platform so that it continues to be automated and self-healing to prevent unnecessary oncall burden.


• Develop net-new Kubernetes-related capabilities for service owners at Coinbase.


• Support our customers as they operate critical services for Coinbase in Kubernetes.

Required Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of software engineering experience and experience with Kubernetes.


• Strong AWS and/or GCP infrastructure knowledge.


• Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure.


• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution.


• Experience scaling backend infrastructure.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a leading platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. We are committed to increasing economic freedom in the world and building the future global financial system.