Hybrid Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Identity Platform

at Coinbase

• Job title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Identity Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $186,065 - $218,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Kubernetes, Open Source, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Coinbase, focusing on identity and access management tooling. Responsibilities include automation, cloud-native development, and maintaining secure system architectures.

Responsibilities

• Engage in a dynamic role that combines traditional operations responsibilities and active contributions to the development and deployment of cloud-native applications, fostering a DevOps culture that emphasizes collaboration and automation
• Partner across Coinbase to design, implement, and maintain performant, reliable, and secure system architectures
• Provide corporate IAM and DevOps tooling subject matter expertise to adjacent IT, Security, and Engineering teams
• Implement automation tooling and scripts to eliminate manual, repetitive tasks and reduce inefficiencies in system operations
• Create comprehensive documentation and runbooks that detail system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting steps across system lifecycle
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for integrating changes and deploying to production in progressively tested environments
• Deliver configurations and maintain state using configuration management tools
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and blameless retrospectives
• Define metrics and bolster monitoring/observability across corporate IAM systems
• Participate in regular on-call rotation to ensure 24x7 uptime for critical systems

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building, iterating upon, and maintaining corporate IAM systems
• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure and application development
• Deep domain-knowledge with prominent cloud identity provider(s): Okta, Duo, Auth0, EntraID, Ping, etc.
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing toolings that solves problems related to: identity lifecycle and provisioning, SSO, MFA, ABAC, RBAC, directory services, zero trust networking, PAM, and secrets management
• Experience configuring and implementing modern open source tooling such as: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker
• Fluency in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc.)
• Strong experience using and managing AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment with IaC
• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, automation frameworks, and best practices
• Clear communication—demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts simply
• Self starter—possess a continuous learning mindset
• Demonstrate critical thinking under pressure

Benefits

• bonus eligibility
• equity eligibility
• benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))