About this role

▸about Coinbase — company background

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.

As a Staff 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'll 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.