Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infra - Scale CI/CD

Coinbase, Inc.; Dover; Hybrid; GBP 163,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will own tools and systems that power thousands of engineers, from CI/build pipelines to deployment orchestration, shaping technical direction and delivering production-ready solutions.

You will lead cross‑team initiatives, improve reliability and performance, and mentor peers while working in a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems with Go or a comparable systems language.
• Experience in CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.
• Proven track record designing backend/platform systems used by many engineers.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on cross-team initiatives.
• Operational expertise with reliable, observable production systems.
• Ability to mentor and raise technical standards across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, across the full lifecycle from design through production operation.
• Identify the group's highest-leverage problems, turn ambiguous and unscoped challenges into concrete technical roadmaps, and drive alignment across dependent teams.
• Drive step-change improvements to the metrics every engineer feels: build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and developer feedback latency.
• Lead strategic, cross-cutting initiatives end to end, including large-scale platform migrations, landing them across many teams alongside the engineers doing the work.
• Raise the reliability bar for developer infrastructure by owning SLOs, observability, and on‑call, designing systems that recover fast rather than cascade into company‑wide incidents.
• Partner with engineering customers, EMs, and leadership across Coinbase to shape technical strategy and drive org‑wide adoption of what you build, while mentoring engineers through design review, pairing, and shared ownership.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

CI/CD

Deployment tooling

Observability

Leadership

Tools

Go language

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group. You will own tools and systems that power thousands of engineers, from CI/build pipelines to deployment orchestration, shaping technical direction and delivering production-ready solutions.

You will lead cross‑team initiatives, improve reliability and performance, and mentor peers while working in a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges.