Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer — Remote-First

Coinbase; Pierre (SD); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company that combines strong in-person surge sessions with continuous collaboration. As a Senior Software Engineer on the IT Operations team, you will own the reliability and automation of critical AI infrastructure powering Coinbase’s AI products, working closely with senior leadership in a fast-paced incubator-like environment.

You will build production-grade distributed systems, develop APIs and tooling for product teams, and shape engineering standards across the

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
• Experience deploying Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go and 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.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production‑grade distributed systems.
• Design APIs and tooling to enable product teams to use AI with minimal bespoke infra.
• Coordinate with Platform and other groups to align infra needs and contracts.
• Set engineering standards and raise the bar on observability and reliability.
• Build full‑stack AI applications using Go or Python.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Go

Bash

Ruby

Generative AI

Platform APIs & abstractions

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company that combines strong in-person surge sessions with continuous collaboration. As a Senior Software Engineer on the IT Operations team, you will own the reliability and automation of critical AI infrastructure powering Coinbase’s AI products, working closely with senior leadership in a fast-paced incubator-like environment.

You will build production-grade distributed systems, develop APIs and tooling for product teams, and shape engineering standards across the