Staff AI Infra Engineer: Core Platform & Reliability

Coinbase; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is pioneering an AI-first infrastructure team. We are remote-first, with quarterly in-person surge sessions, and a culture that pushes engineers to exceed limits.

The Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure will own the reliability and scalability of critical AI infrastructure and work with senior leadership to shape the platform. The role focuses on building distributed systems, designing developer tooling, and advancing our internal AI capabilities while ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) with infrastructure-as-code tooling.

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 across platforms and 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

AWS cloud

Go

Python

Bash

CI/CD

APIs

Architecture

Generative AI governance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Git CI/CD

Job description

Coinbase is pioneering an AI-first infrastructure team. We are remote-first, with quarterly in-person surge sessions, and a culture that pushes engineers to exceed limits.

The Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure will own the reliability and scalability of critical AI infrastructure and work with senior leadership to shape the platform. The role focuses on building distributed systems, designing developer tooling, and advancing our internal AI capabilities while ensuring security and