Senior Software Engineer (Compute Platform)

Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team. You'll be responsible for the primary compute orchestration infrastructure that supports the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our entire product suite. Your work will involve designing and shipping tooling, automation, and new capabilities, while collaborating closely with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams. You should have hands-on experience with the CNCF ecosystem, AWS and/or GCP infrastructure services, and a proven ability to apply AI tooling to infrastructure workflows.

• Conception, design, and implementation of tooling and automation for compute orchestration infrastructure.
• Management and operation of Kubernetes cluster management tooling and automation to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance security, reliability, and observability of the compute platform.

• Hands-on experience with the CNCF ecosystem (e.g., Helm, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Envoy) and a track record of applying these tools to solve real infrastructure problems
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP infrastructure services (e.g., EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, networking) in a production environment at scale
• Proven ability to apply AI tooling to infrastructure workflows, improving automation, developer productivity, or operational efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and operate distributed infrastructure systems, including diagnosing complex failures and driving them to root-cause resolution
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building and operating Kubernetes or similar compute orchestration systems (e.g., Mesos, Nomad, ECS)