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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
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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team within the Platform Product Group, you will own the routing layer connecting every service to customers. You will design, develop, and automate routing infrastructure that directs application traffic to Kubernetes backends at scale. Your daily work involves building capabilities on top of Envoy-based reverse proxies, Istio gateways, Ambient mesh, and SPIFFE service authentication. You will drive measurable improvements to latency, reliability, and performance while shaping the paved-road developer experience using AI-driven tooling. Required technical skills include proficiency in Go, Python, or Java, and experience with AWS, networking, and container orchestration. You must demonstrate deep familiarity with the CNCF ecosystem, specifically Kubernetes, Envoy, and Istio, to solve complex distributed systems issues within production environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.
Design, develop, and automate routing infrastructure to direct application traffic to Kubernetes backends at scale.
Build capabilities on Envoy-based reverse proxies, Istio gateways, Ambient mesh, and SPIFFE service authentication.
Improve latency, reliability, and performance of application routing systems across the production environment.
Shape the paved-road developer experience for operating applications using AI-driven tooling and processes.
Partner with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to meet cross-cutting platform requirements.
Diagnose and resolve complex issues within distributed systems independently.
Apply generative AI tooling to infrastructure workflows to improve efficiency, reliability, and developer velocity.
What we're looking for
8+ years of experience in software engineering and infrastructure roles.
5+ years of hands-on engineering experience with application routing technologies including reverse proxies, ingress controllers, CDN/WAF, and service mesh.
Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java with experience building and shipping production-grade infrastructure services.
Demonstrated experience scaling backend infrastructure on AWS with knowledge of networking, compute, and container orchestration services.
Deep familiarity with the CNCF ecosystem including Kubernetes, Envoy, and Istio with the ability to extend these technologies in production.
Track record of diagnosing complex distributed systems issues and driving them to resolution independently.
Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to improve infrastructure workflows, efficiency, and developer velocity.
Distributed Systems
LLM Inference
Java
C++
Go
Swift
C#
Kubernetes
Network Protocols
Load Balancing
SRE
TLS
X.509
vLLM
SGLang
NVIDIA Dynamo
Unix System Internals
Observability
Distributed Systems
LLM Inference
Java
C++
Go
Swift
C#
Kubernetes
Network Protocols
Load Balancing
TLS
X.509
vLLM
SGLang
NVIDIA Dynamo
Unix System Internals
Observability