Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

Coinbase

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Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$186,065–$197,010 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$186,300 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $165k for comparable roles.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 102 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $188,657–$218,900 across 92 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability

As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Reliability on the Infra Reliability team within Platform, you will improve reliability, security, and deployment safety across the production environment. You will own the design and delivery of reliability projects, partner with critical services to improve scalability and reduce operational toil, and build systems to securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale. Your work involves enhancing canary-based release systems to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments. You will utilize Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. Additionally, you will use observability and monitoring tools such as Kibana and Datadog to debug complex production issues. This role focuses on strengthening the reliability culture and infrastructure of a high-throughput, low-latency distributed system.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 345 postings across 48 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and deliver reliability projects to improve resiliency across the service environment.
  • Partner with critical services to improve architecture, scalability, and reduce operational toil.
  • Build and enhance systems to securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
  • Improve canary-based release systems to support thousands of services and daily deployments.
  • Drive reliability best practices and strengthen the reliability culture across engineering teams.
  • Use observability and monitoring tools to debug complex production issues and tune performance.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to respond to production issues outside of normal business hours.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures.
  • Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and operate reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale.
  • Proven experience with observability and monitoring tools like Kibana and Datadog to debug complex production issues.
  • 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.
  • Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and drive workflow efficiency.

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