Remote-First Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Core AI Infrastructure team. You will own the reliability and automation of AI infrastructure, delivering production-grade distributed systems and APIs that power Coinbase's AI products at scale.

Join a remote-first, in-person surges cadence with quarterly gatherings. Expect to shape standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across platform teams to drive architectural excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
• Production experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go) and Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Platform-builder mindset with history designing reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions adopted across teams.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems across the full stack.
• Drive platform adoption by designing clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to align infrastructure requirements and define shared platform contracts.
• Shape engineering standards and culture by establishing architectural patterns, mentoring engineers, and improving observability and reliability.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

AWS

IaC

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Python

Go

Bash

Git CI/CD

AI governance

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Core AI Infrastructure team. You will own the reliability and automation of AI infrastructure, delivering production-grade distributed systems and APIs that power Coinbase's AI products at scale.

Join a remote-first, in-person surges cadence with quarterly gatherings. Expect to shape standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across platform teams to drive architectural excellence.