Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Enablement
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At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.
To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.
The Infrastructure Enablement team creates standardized, high-performance "paved roads" to accelerate development, ensure security, and unlock new capabilities across Coinbase. This role is for our Blockchain Infra domain, which focuses on our foundational blockchain systems. This includes our Global Blockchain Sync (GBS) service — which provides quick storage and recovery of blockchain state — and our new Bare Metal Platform for specialized blockchain (like Solana). We are migrating legacy systems, abstracting complexity, and ensuring our core infrastructure is robust and efficient.
What you’ll be doing (Job Duties)
- Evolve, scale, and maintain the Global Blockchain Sync (GBS) service, ensuring reliable, up-to-date snapshots for all protocols.
- Help build new standardized Paved Road infrastructure for GCP & AWS.
- Design, build, and automate the new "Bare Metal Platform" to standardize provisioning for high-performance workloads.
- Partner with internal customers (Base, Blockchain teams) and partners (Compute, Security) to deliver secure, self-service infrastructure.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on infrastructure, backend, or SRE.
- Strong, hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS and GCP.
- Deep experience with container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS) and container runtimes.
- Proven ability to build robust backend services and automation (e.g., in Go, Python).
- Ability to hold a high bar for quality, is a self-starter, and has strong interpersonal skills.
- Experience scaling and managing large-scale, mission-critical, stateful infrastructure.
- Code Quality: Know what high-quality infrastructure-as-code looks like and foster an environment that creates it.
- Core Values: Exhibit our core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
- Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic environment—specifically the ambiguity involved in building a platform from scratch.
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and automation (e.g., MAAS, Tinkerbell, or tools like Ansible/Terraform).
- Experience writing, building, or implementing a Kubernetes operator.
- Experience with high-performance storage solutions (e.g., ZFS).
- Knowledge of blockchain node operations or state management.
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*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.
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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).
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AI Disclosure
For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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