# Staff Software Engineer, Core Reliability
**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $218K-$257K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, Go, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kibana, Datadog, System Design, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Staff engineer on the Infra Reliability team improving system resiliency, deployment safety, and configuration management for Coinbase's production environment at massive scale.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do
- Build and launch reliability projects and features that improve resiliency across our service environment in partnership with reliability teams.
- Work closely with critical T0/T1 services to understand architecture, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational toil.
- Build and enhance systems that securely manage service configurations and secrets at scale.
- Improve canary-based release systems to make deployments safer and reduce incidents.
- Expand deployment capabilities to support thousands of services and hundreds of daily deployments.
- Partner across teams to promote reliability best practices and strengthen reliability culture across Coinbase.

## Required Skills and Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in service-oriented architectures.
- Strong system design and coding skills, with a track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code.
- Strong observability, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
- Sound judgment under pressure and a willingness to debug and improve any layer of the stack.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to issues outside normal business hours.
- Experience building reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog.
- Familiarity with rapid-growth environments.
- Experience with Ruby, Go, Terraform, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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