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Salary: USD 113,815 - 133,900 / annual
As a Senior IT Automation Engineer on the IT Tooling team within IT Support & Services at Coinbase, you will own the technical architecture behind automations that power IT operations. This role involves designing and maintaining self-service workflows, bots, and integrations that employees interact with daily—from ticket triage and access reviews to onboarding and offboarding.
Key responsibilities include owning the technical architecture of IT Tooling automations and driving design decisions on system structure, integration patterns, and platform standards across n8n, Airflow, Temporal, and Jira. You will lead complex automation projects end-to-end as a technical DRI, from discovery and design through production delivery. You'll partner with Security, Corporate Engineering, and IAM teams to resolve technical blockers and represent IT Tooling in cross-functional architecture discussions.
You will build shared frameworks, reusable components, and architecture documentation that reduce single points of failure and raise the team's engineering bar. You'll establish code review practices and engineering standards that elevate quality across the IT Tooling platform. This role requires working with regional IT teams across APAC, EMEA, and AMER to deliver high-impact automation at scale.
Required experience includes 5+ years in IT engineering, automation, or systems engineering, with demonstrated ownership of architecture decisions and platform-level systems. Deep expertise is needed in building and maintaining complex automations with n8n, Airflow, Temporal, Jira Automation, or Workato, plus strong Git-based development workflows (branching, CI/CD, code review). Working knowledge of Okta, Slack API, and Google Workspace administration is required to design secure, scalable automation architecture.
You should be able to operate independently in ambiguous environments, translating loosely scoped problems into production-ready technical specs and clear architecture decision records. Experience mentoring peers and writing technical design documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences is essential. The role emphasizes responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges." The company is uncompromising on its mission to increase economic freedom and maintains a high-intensity, high-bar environment.
