Remote-First Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer

Coinbase; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401

In-person surges quarterly

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to drive AI transformation within the IT Operations team. The role focuses on reliability, automation, and scale of AI infrastructure, with exposure to senior leadership in an incubator-style environment.

You will build distributed systems, design APIs, and collaborate with product groups to meet platform requirements, while mentoring engineers and elevating operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
• Hands-on use of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt).
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go) and Git-based CI/CD workflows.
• Platform-builder mindset with reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions adopted across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems across the full stack throughout the SDLC.
• Design APIs, abstractions, and tooling to enable product teams to integrate AI capabilities without bespoke infrastructure requests.
• Align infrastructure requirements with Platform leadership and cross-team product groups; define shared contracts.
• Shape engineering standards by establishing architectural patterns, mentoring engineers, and improving code quality and observability.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

Docker & Kubernetes

Python/Bash/Go

Platform-minded design

Generative AI governance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to drive AI transformation within the IT Operations team. The role focuses on reliability, automation, and scale of AI infrastructure, with exposure to senior leadership in an incubator-style environment.

You will build distributed systems, design APIs, and collaborate with product groups to meet platform requirements, while mentoring engineers and elevating operational excellence.