Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer, Core Platform

Coinbase; Pierre (SD); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own end-to-end AI infrastructure across production systems, delivering scalable, reliable services. You will build full-stack tooling and production-grade pipelines using Go or Python, with a platform-builder mindset.

You'll work with AI products and infrastructure, collaborate with senior leadership, design reusable APIs, and elevate code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go).
• Experience designing reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions used across teams.
• Knowledge of applying generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows and cost.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems and deployment orchestration.
• Drive platform adoption by designing clean APIs and developer-facing tooling for AI capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to align infrastructure requirements and cross-team contracts.
• Shape engineering standards by establishing architectural patterns and raising code quality and observability.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Skills

AWS & cloud infra

IaC tools

Docker & Kubernetes

Programming languages

Platform design

Generative AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own end-to-end AI infrastructure across production systems, delivering scalable, reliable services. You will build full-stack tooling and production-grade pipelines using Go or Python, with a platform-builder mindset.

You'll work with AI products and infrastructure, collaborate with senior leadership, design reusable APIs, and elevate code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.