Coinbase
Mid
Build the CI/build/deploy platform that thousands of Coinbase engineers depend on daily
Coinbase is hiring Software Engineers into its Developer Infrastructure group to own components of CI/build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure end-to-end, from implementation through on-call. This interview evaluates backend/distributed-systems fundamentals, Go proficiency, and the operational instincts needed to ship reliable, secure-by-default platform features at financial-grade scale.
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What this interview tests
- CI/build system performance and reliability (wall time, flakiness)
- Deployment orchestration and safe rollout practices
- Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform/container platform experience
- Production ownership: on-call, observability, incident response
- Cross-team collaboration with 'customers' who are other engineers
Common question themes
Walk me through a backend or platform feature you owned end-to-end, including on-call
How would you diagnose and reduce flaky tests or slow CI in a large monorepo
Design a deployment pipeline change that must be safe for thousands of engineers
How do you use observability tooling to catch problems before they page you
Tell me about a time you drove a scoped project with limited guidance
How do you prioritize competing platform requests from different engineering teams
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