Senior Software Engineer, Core Infra SystemsNew$46K–$183K

The opportunity

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.

What you'll do

  • Own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives that span the AWS, GCP, and: Networking pillars inside Core Infra Systems, driving alignment on standards, tooling, and operational patterns.

  • Build and maintain self-service tooling and paved-road defaults that let: product teams provision and operate cloud infrastructure safely without deep platform expertise.

  • Partner with Compute, Infra Security, and Routing teams to embed guardrails: into infrastructure provisioning, ensuring every default meets Coinbase's bar for security, compliance, and reliability.

  • Drive infrastructure standardization across Coinbase's multi-cloud: environment, reducing fragmentation and improving consistency in how teams consume cloud networking, compute, and shared platform primitives.

  • Lead technical investigations and operational improvements across: infrastructure boundaries, working with broader stakeholders to resolve systemic issues and scale foundational systems.

  • + years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years building and: operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP (networking, compute, or platform engineering).

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience with cloud networking primitives such as VPCs, transit: gateways, DNS, load balancers, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Python) used to build: platform tooling and automation at scale.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives, partnering: across multiple infrastructure domains to deliver cohesive, production-ready outcomes.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver: business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.