The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure.

The Compute team builds and operates the Kubernetes platform at Coinbase, which is the primary compute orchestration infrastructure for services at Coinbase. We work towards continuously improving the scalability, reliability, efficiency, and operational experience of using Kubernetes at Coinbase, working closely with the Routing, Security, Reliability, and Observability teams (among many others).

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

Build tooling and automation to make management of our Kubernetes clusters easy and reliable.
Build tooling and automation to improve the developer and operational experience of working with Kubernetes for all users.
Operationalize our Kubernetes platform so that it continues to be automated and self-healing to prevent unnecessary oncall burden.
Develop net-new Kubernetes-related capabilities for service owners at Coinbase (e.g. one off jobs, cron, different deployment strategies, support for EFS, automated right sizing).
Support our customers as they operate critical services for Coinbase in Kubernetes.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

You have at least 5+ years of software engineering experience and experience with Kubernetes, or similar compute orchestration systems (e.g. mesos, nomad)
Strong AWS and/or GCP infrastructure knowledge
Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure
Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution
Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions
Has experience scaling backend infrastructure

Job #: P74890

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Platform Compute