Senior AI Infra Engineer: Scalable Platform & Automation

Coinbase, Inc.; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for AI Transformation to own the reliability and automation of critical AI infrastructure. You will build distributed systems, design APIs, and drive platform adoption across teams, leveraging Go or Python to deliver production-grade solutions.

You will mentor engineers, establish architectural patterns, and raise the bar on observability and operational excellence while collaborating with senior leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
• Hands-on use of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt).
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go and Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Platform-builder mindset with design of reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions adopted by multiple teams.
• Responsible use of generative AI, ensuring human oversight and measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems across the full stack.
• Design APIs, abstractions, and tooling to enable product teams to reuse AI capabilities with minimal bespoke infra work.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to align infra requirements and define shared platform contracts.
• Shape engineering standards and culture by setting architectural patterns and improving code quality and observability.
• Build full-stack apps powering internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD with Git

Programming: Python/Bash/Go/Ruby

Platform design & APIs

Generative AI awareness

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Git-based CI/CD

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for AI Transformation to own the reliability and automation of critical AI infrastructure. You will build distributed systems, design APIs, and drive platform adoption across teams, leveraging Go or Python to deliver production-grade solutions.

You will mentor engineers, establish architectural patterns, and raise the bar on observability and operational excellence while collaborating with senior leadership in a fast-paced environment.