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Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase, Remote - USA +1

Posted pay

$186K–$197K

a year

Location: Remote - USA +1
Work type: Remote
Level: Senior
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
GCP
Azure
Go
Terraform
Datadog
Ruby
Posted: Jul 31, 2026
Last check: 7 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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The role

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. This team owns the systems that secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment infrastructure supporting thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases. You'll lead high-impact reliability projects that make our entire service environment more resilient and safer for customers.

What you will do

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.

What you need

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.

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)

$186,065—$197,010 USD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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About Coinbase

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.

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Compared with similar jobs

This base pay is near the median for senior software engineering jobs that are remote in the US.

Median: $185K a year
Other jobs in the group: 935

We compare the middle of each posted range. This is base pay as posted. The group does not include this job.

Company facts

Money raised: $505MSum of funding rounds on record
Newest round: Series EOct 30, 2018

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Open tech jobs: 130
With posted pay: 98%
Median posted base: $191K–$219K

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