Staff AI Infra Engineer – Platform & Automation

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure, joining a high-performance IT Operations team in ESTO. You will own reliability and automation of AI infrastructure, building production-grade systems and APIs to scale Coinbase's AI products.

The role emphasizes platform governance, observability, and cross-team collaboration, with a remote-first culture and quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
• 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

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

API design

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure, joining a high-performance IT Operations team in ESTO. You will own reliability and automation of AI infrastructure, building production-grade systems and APIs to scale Coinbase's AI products.

The role emphasizes platform governance, observability, and cross-team collaboration, with a remote-first culture and quarterly in-person surges.