Staff AI Infra Engineer — Remote-First, Scale AI Platforms

Coinbase; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure on the IT Operations team. You will own the reliability and automation of AI infrastructure at scale, building production-grade distributed systems and APIs, and guiding platform contracts across teams.

The role emphasizes observability, engineering standards, and operational excellence, with Go or Python as primary languages. Expect collaboration with senior leadership in a fast-paced environment and quarterly in-person

Qualifications

• 8+ years automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
• Hands-on use of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt).
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go, and Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Platform-builder mindset with reusable infrastructure and API design experience.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems and deployment orchestration.
• Design clean APIs and tooling to enable product teams to adopt AI capabilities without bespoke infra requests.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to align infrastructure requirements and define platform contracts.
• Shape engineering standards and culture by establishing architectural patterns and mentoring engineers.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure automation

Infra architecture

Go or Python programming

AI workflow improvements

DevOps culture/observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Git/CI-CD

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure on the IT Operations team. You will own the reliability and automation of AI infrastructure at scale, building production-grade distributed systems and APIs, and guiding platform contracts across teams.

The role emphasizes observability, engineering standards, and operational excellence, with Go or Python as primary languages. Expect collaboration with senior leadership in a fast-paced environment and quarterly in-person