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Salary: CAD 191,100 - 191,100 / annual
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Reliability team within Platform Engineering. You'll help scale Coinbase 50x by improving reliability, security, and deployment safety across the production environment.
The Core Reliability team owns systems that secure service configurations and secrets, reduce customer-facing incidents, and strengthen deployment infrastructure supporting thousands of services and hundreds of daily releases. In this role, you'll lead high-impact reliability projects that make the entire service environment more resilient and safer for customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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
Required qualifications:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures
- 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
- 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 and tune system performance
- 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
- Responsible use of generative AI while maintaining human oversight
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges." The environment is intense and mission-driven, focused on increasing economic freedom in finance.
