Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability
CoinbaseCryptocurrency Exchange company
Canada$191,100 - $191,100 CADSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
Union Square Ventures
Ribbit Capital
Tiger Global Management
Y Combinator
IVP
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior Software Engineer focused on improving reliability, security, and deployment safety.
- •As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team within Platform, you'll help Coinbase scale 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across our production environment.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the design and delivery of reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across Coinbase's service environment in partnership with other engineering teams.
- •Partner with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational toil.
- •Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
- •Improve canary-based release systems and expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments with fewer incidents.
- •Drive reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across engineering teams at Coinbase.
- •Requirements 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures, including experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
- •Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale, with a track record of writing well-tested, production-quality code.
- •Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, Datadog) to debug complex production issues, tune system performance, and reduce incident frequency.
- •Experience writing and verbally communicating architecture decisions to cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
- •Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
- •Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Required skills
GoTerraformAWSGoogle CloudAzureRubyDatadogDockerKubernetesCI/CD
Domain expertise
fintechcrypto
Tech stack
RubyGoTerraformAWSGoogle CloudAzureDatadogDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDHelmGitLab CICircleCIAnsibleChefPuppetPrometheusGrafanaNginxHAProxy