Senior AI Infra Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure to own the reliability and automation of AI infrastructure at scale within a fast-paced, incubator-style environment.

Join a remote-first company building production-grade distributed systems, APIs, and tooling for AI capabilities, collaborating with senior leadership across platform teams. Strong experience in AWS, containers, and CI/CD is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments, with hands-on use of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go) and version control workflows using Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Platform-builder mindset with proven history of designing reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions adopted by multiple teams across an engineering organization.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems, including serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration across the full stack throughout the SDLC.
• Drive platform adoption by designing clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling that enable product teams to integrate AI capabilities without bespoke infrastructure requests.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership acrossPlatformand other product groups to align infrastructure requirements, resolve cross-team technical dependencies, and define shared platform contracts.
• Shape engineering standards and technical culture by establishing architectural patterns, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar on code quality, observability, and operational excellence.
• Build full-stack applications that power internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

APIs & Abstractions

Generative AI

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Git

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure to own the reliability and automation of AI infrastructure at scale within a fast-paced, incubator-style environment.

Join a remote-first company building production-grade distributed systems, APIs, and tooling for AI capabilities, collaborating with senior leadership across platform teams. Strong experience in AWS, containers, and CI/CD is essential.