Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability
$186K–$197K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 2 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs and delivers reliability systems and projects that improve the resilience, security, and deployment safety of Coinbase’s production environment.
What you'll do
- Lead reliability projects and partner with engineering teams to improve service resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Build systems for securely managing service configurations and secrets, and improve canary-based release systems.
- Promote reliability best practices and respond to production issues through on-call rotations.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures using Ruby, Go, Terraform, and a cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure).
- Ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale and write well-tested production code.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Kibana or Datadog, including debugging production issues and reducing incidents.
- Experience communicating architecture decisions; ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond outside normal business hours.
Pay
$186,065 — $197,010 USD annual base salary
Tools
Ruby, Go, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kibana, Datadog
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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