Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer responsible for enhancing reliability and security in production environments. Collaborating on projects to scale systems at Coinbase.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $218,025 - $256,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformRubyTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.
Work closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil.
Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
Improve canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents.
Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.
Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software engineering experience
Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures
Strong system design and coding skills, with a track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code
Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
Sound judgment under pressure and a willingness to debug and improve any layer of the stack
Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to issues outside normal business hours
Experience building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems
Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog
Familiarity with rapid-growth environments
Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
Medical, dental, vision benefits
401(k) plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsystem designcodingobservabilitydebuggingperformance tuninghigh-throughput systemslow-latency systemsservice-oriented architectureproduction services

Soft Skills

written communicationverbal communicationjudgment under pressureproblem-solvingcollaborationreliability best practicestechnical explanationon-call participationadaptabilityculture promotion