Staff AI Infra Engineer — Remote-First Core Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure within ESTO. You will own reliability, automation, and scalable AI infrastructure, shaping platform standards while mentoring peers and delivering secure, observable systems.

Expect to build full-stack tooling and distributed services in Go or Python, partnering with leaders across platforms and product groups to advance Coinbase's AI capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and networks.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in at least one language (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go) and Git-based CI/CD workflows.
• Platform-builder mindset with reusable infra, APIs, and abstractions adopted across teams.

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 use AI capabilities with minimal bespoke infra.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to align infra requirements and define platform contracts.
• Shape engineering standards by establishing architectural patterns, mentoring engineers, and improving observability and reliability.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Bash

Git CI/CD

Job description

Coinbase, a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure within ESTO. You will own reliability, automation, and scalable AI infrastructure, shaping platform standards while mentoring peers and delivering secure, observable systems.

Expect to build full-stack tooling and distributed services in Go or Python, partnering with leaders across platforms and product groups to advance Coinbase's AI capabilities at scale.