Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure
About the role
About Coinbase
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We're building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.
Our culture is intense and demanding. We seek candidates passionate about crypto and blockchain technology, eager to make an impact, and willing to tackle the company's hardest problems alongside high-caliber colleagues.
About This Role
Join a high-performing team of skilled engineers driving AI transformation at Coinbase. This Senior Site Reliability Engineer position involves leading the development of scalable AI products with direct exposure to high-level executives, focusing on rapid ideation, execution, and delivering impactful solutions in a dynamic, incubator-style environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead AI-driven infrastructure innovation and transformation initiatives
- Partner with the Coinbase Infrastructure team to support and extend existing CI/CD frameworks for IT services, including enterprise network platforms
- Partner with security and compliance to build surveillance tooling into deployment pipelines
- Design and implement automation to streamline operational IT support workflows
- Own Kubernetes deployment, implementation, and support
- Build a technological roadmap based on product requirements
- Participate in on-call support for the AWS service deployment pipeline
- Promote DevSecOps mentality and establish best practices for cloud security
- Set and maintain standards of excellence for technical documentation across IT engineering
- Participate in an operational environment with strict SLAs, managed incident response, and disaster recovery strategies
- Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and lead blameless retrospectives
- Define metrics and design/implement automation based on monitoring and observability
Work Environment
While many Coinbase roles are remote-first, this position requires in-person participation 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.