Group Product Manager, Core Infra and Reliability

About the role

In this position, you will oversee the product vision and strategy for Coinbase's Core Infrastructure, addressing compute, networking, and multi-cloud architecture needs. Your leadership will be crucial in driving infrastructure reliability and resilience, ensuring that Coinbase's systems meet the demands of a global financial platform.

You will collaborate with various teams, including Engineering, SRE, and Security, to align infrastructure investments with business priorities. Your role involves evaluating cloud technologies and making strategic decisions that balance cost and performance while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

The annual base salary ranges from $243,865 to $286,900 USD, depending on location.

Skills that matter here

• cloud infrastructure: Your expertise will guide the evaluation and adoption of cloud technologies.
• Kubernetes: Experience with Kubernetes is essential for managing containerized applications.
• infrastructure reliability: You will lead initiatives to enhance platform reliability and resilience.
• observability: Understanding observability will help in analyzing infrastructure performance.
• infrastructure-as-code: This role requires knowledge of infrastructure-as-code for efficient deployment.
• distributed storage: You will engage with distributed storage solutions as part of the infrastructure strategy.

Who this role suits

• A seasoned product manager with over 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Someone who thrives in high-pressure environments and is driven by measurable outcomes.
• A collaborative leader who can effectively communicate complex strategies to diverse teams and executives.
• An individual who embraces technology and innovation, utilizing tools like generative AI responsibly.

From the employer

What you’ll do:

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Core Infrastructure, spanning compute, networking, multi-region and multi-cloud architecture, and platform reliability.
• Drive infrastructure reliability and resilience programs, defining and tracking platform-level SLOs, capacity planning, failover capabilities, and incident reduction targets to ensure Coinbase's systems 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 informed build-vs.-buy decisions that balance cost, performance, and operational complexity.
• Partner with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Finance to align infrastructure investments with business priorities, optimize cloud spend, and ensure infrastructure services meet regulatory and compliance requirements across all operating jurisdictions.
• Shape how Coinbase's product and engineering teams consume infrastructure by building self-serve capabilities, defining service standards, and reducing the overhead required for teams to deploy and operate reliable services at scale.
• Deepen understanding of infrastructure performance and cost dynamics 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 significant experience owning strategy for 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 without needing everything explained.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across engineering, SRE, security, and finance in regulated, high-trust environments.
• Proven ability to articulate complex infrastructure strategy, cost tradeoffs, and long-term platform bets to senior and executive leadership with clarity and precision.
• 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)). Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $243,865—$286,900 USD.
• Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity:

• Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.