Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer — Core Platform (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure. You will join a high-performing team on the IT Operations group within ESTO, owning reliability and automation of AI infrastructure at scale and shaping internal tooling and APIs for cross-team reuse.

You will build production-grade distributed systems, mentor engineers, and contribute to a culture of strong coding standards and observability. Expertise in Go or Python and cloud-native platforms is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python/Bash/Ruby/Go and Git-based CI/CD workflows.
• Platform-driven mindset with reusable infra, API, and abstraction design.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building scalable infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Design APIs and tooling to enable product teams to access AI capabilities with minimal bespoke infra.
• Collaborate with Platform and other teams to align infra requirements and define contracts.
• Shape engineering standards, mentor engineers, and improve observability and reliability.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products and infra using Go or Python.

Skills

Cloud infra (AWS)

IaC tooling

Docker/Kubernetes

Programming languages

CI/CD pipelines

Platform design

Generative AI governance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Job description

Coinbase is recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure. You will join a high-performing team on the IT Operations group within ESTO, owning reliability and automation of AI infrastructure at scale and shaping internal tooling and APIs for cross-team reuse.

You will build production-grade distributed systems, mentor engineers, and contribute to a culture of strong coding standards and observability. Expertise in Go or Python and cloud-native platforms is essential.