About this Group Product Manager, Core Infrastructure & Reliability role at Coinbase
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
The Core Infrastructure team within Coinbase's Platform product group builds the foundational systems that keep Coinbase online, secure, and scalable, owning the compute and networking platforms that power every product and service across the company. As the Group Product Manager for Core Infrastructure & Reliability, you'll own the product vision and multi-year strategy for Coinbase's cloud infrastructure, driving the design, operation, and scaling of the systems that underpin hundreds of billions of dollars in annual transaction volume. You'll partner deeply with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance to ensure Coinbase's infrastructure is reliable, cost-efficient, and resilient across multiple cloud environments and regions.
What you’ll do:
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for Core Infrastructure, spanning compute, networking, multi-region and multi-cloud architecture, and platform reliability.
- Strengthen infrastructure reliability and resilience programs, defining platform-level SLOs, capacity planning, failover capabilities, and incident reduction targets to meet the uptime demands of a global financial platform.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of cloud infrastructure technologies (Kubernetes, service mesh, distributed storage, observability, infrastructure-as-code), making build-vs-buy decisions that balance cost, speed, and long-term scalability.
- Align infrastructure investments with business priorities, optimize cloud spend, and ensure infrastructure services meet regulatory and compliance requirements across operating jurisdictions.
- Shape how Coinbase's product and engineering teams consume infrastructure by building self-serve capabilities, improving developer experience, and reducing friction across provisioning, deployment, and observability workflows.
- Drive infrastructure cost strategy by analyzing utilization patterns, identifying the highest-leverage optimization opportunities, and translating infrastructure metrics into executive-level investment cases.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years of product management experience, with 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure reliability at scale.
- Track record of defining and executing multi-year infrastructure platform strategies that delivered measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, or engineering velocity.
- Technical depth to engage with engineers on compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, multi-cloud architecture, and distributed systems design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in regulated, high-trust environments.
- Proven ability to articulate complex infrastructure strategy, cost tradeoffs, and long-term platform bets to senior and executive leadership.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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- AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.
