Staff Software Engineer – Core Reliability

Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer improving reliability for Coinbase's infrastructure. Working on high-impact projects to ensure safe deployment and system resiliency.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaLead💰 CA$217,900 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Expertise in designing and delivering reliable, scalable service-oriented architectures, with a strong focus on improving system resiliency and operational efficiency. Proficient in utilizing observability tools and managing service configurations to enhance deployment capabilities and reduce incident frequency.

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10+ Years Software Engineering ExperienceService-Oriented ArchitectureRuby ProgrammingGo ProgrammingTerraform

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Hard Skills

Distributed Systems DesignProduction Services MaintenanceHigh-Throughput SystemsLow-Latency SystemsWell-Tested Code

Soft Skills

Cross-Functional CommunicationOn-Call Rotation Participation

Tools & Technologies

AWSGCPAzureKibanaDatadog

Industry Keywords

Reliability Best PracticesDeployment CapabilitiesOperational Toil ReductionService Configurations ManagementGenerative AI Utilization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformRubyTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

10+ 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)