Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform (Routing)Active$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 the design, development, and automation of routing infrastructure that: directs application traffic to Kubernetes backends at scale

  • Build capabilities on top of Envoy-based reverse proxies, Istio gateways,: Ambient mesh, and SPIFFE service authentication

  • Drive measurable improvements to latency, reliability, and performance of: application routing systems across Coinbase's production environment

  • Shape the paved-road developer experience for operating applications at: Coinbase, with emphasis on AI-driven tooling, processes, and support

  • Partner with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to ensure routing: infrastructure meets cross-cutting platform requirements

  • + years of experience in software engineering and infrastructure roles

What they're looking for

  • + years of hands-on engineering experience with application routing: technologies including reverse proxies, ingress controllers, CDN/WAF, and service mesh
  • Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages (Go, Python, or: Java) with experience building and shipping production-grade infrastructure services
  • Demonstrated experience scaling backend infrastructure on AWS, with working: knowledge of networking, compute, and container orchestration services
  • Deep familiarity with the CNCF ecosystem (Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio) and: proven ability to extend or contribute to these technologies in production