Senior IT Automation Engineer
Coinbase · Posted Oct 12
Cryptocurrency exchange, digital wallet, custody, and blockchain infrastructure services
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About the role
The IT Tooling team sits within IT Support & Services (ITSS) and builds the automations that power ITSS's own operations, including the in-house bot Ask IT that deflects the majority of company-wide IT requests. The team automates core workflows such as ticket triage, access reviews, and onboarding and offboarding across n8n, Jira, Okta, Airflow, and Temporal, partnering with regional IT teams across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. This role owns technical domains within the IT Tooling platform, leading architecture, standards, and the most complex automation projects end to end.
What you will do
- Own the technical architecture of IT Tooling automations, driving design decisions on system structure, integration patterns, and tooling across n8n, Airflow, Temporal, and Jira
- Establish architecture standards and code review practices that raise the team's overall engineering bar
- Lead as technical DRI on the most complex, highest-impact automation projects, from discovery and design through production delivery
- Partner with Security, Corporate Engineering, and IAM to resolve technical blockers and represent the team in cross-functional architecture discussions
- Build shared frameworks and reusable components that reduce single points of failure across the platform
- Produce architecture documentation and decision records that enable the team to scale with minimal dependency on any single individual
- Manage your own workload with a high degree of independence, translating loosely scoped problems into production-ready technical specifications
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of experience in IT engineering, automation, or systems engineering, with demonstrated ownership of architecture decisions, engineering standards, or platform-level systems that others build on top of
- Deep expertise building and maintaining complex automations using n8n, Airflow, Temporal, Jira Automation, or Workato, paired with strong Git-based development workflows including branching, CI/CD, and code review
- Working knowledge of Okta, Slack API, and Google Workspace administration sufficient to design secure, scalable automation architecture
- Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and translate loosely scoped problems into production-ready technical specifications
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits and support
- Equity and bonus eligibility
- Benefits including medical, dental, and vision
About Coinbase
Coinbase is a leading financial technology company that operates a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital assets. Serving retail consumers, institutional investors, and developers worldwide, the company provides comprehensive exchange capabilities, institutional custody services, and scalable blockchain infrastructure like the Base network. Its mission is to increase economic freedom around the world by building the foundational financial rails for the cryptoeconomy.
- Industry
- Cryptocurrency
- Company size
- 4300+ employees
- Founded
- June 2012
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $547M raised
- 2025-12-19Post IPO Equity$2.6B
- 2021-08-13Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2021-05-17Post IPO$1.25B
- 2020-07-01Series U$75M
- 2018-10-01Series E$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
President and Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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