Senior IT Automation Engineer
Coinbase
Remote - IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
ITautomationGenerative AIEngineeringsecuritybuildingAirflowdesignCI/CDJiraIAMGitandCICDAI
Key highlights
- Annual base salary: ₹3,419,600 INR
- 5+ years of experience required
- Remote-first with quarterly in-person surges
- Equity and bonus eligibility
Role overview
At Coinbase, the mission is to increase economic freedom through impactful work in a high-intensity, remote-first environment. The IT Tooling team within IT Support & Services (ITSS) builds automations that power ITSS operations, including the in-house bot Ask IT, which deflects most company-wide IT requests. The team automates core workflows like ticket triage, access reviews, onboarding, and offboarding, enabling self-service experiences. The role involves owning technical domains within the IT Tooling platform and collaborating with regional IT teams across APAC, EMEA, and AMER using platforms like n8n, Jira, Okta, Airflow, and Temporal.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility
- Benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)
Additional details
- Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called 'surges'
- Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): ₹3,419,600—₹3,419,600 INR
- 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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