Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer - Scalable Platform

Coinbase; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure to drive reliable AI platforms and scalable infrastructure. You will own end-to-end delivery, shape standards, and partner with leadership to align platform capabilities across teams.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and secure, resilient systems, with hands-on work across production-grade deployments and APIs for product teams.

Qualifications

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

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 leverage AI without bespoke infra work.
• Collaborate with Platform and product groups to align infra requirements and resolve cross-team dependencies.
• Set architectural patterns and drive code quality, observability, and operational excellence.
• Build full-stack applications powering internal AI products using Go or Python.

Skills

Automation of cloud infra

Distributed systems

APIs & tooling for developers

Mature CI/CD practices

Mentoring & standards

Platform-wide collaboration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Git CI/CD

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Core AI Infrastructure to drive reliable AI platforms and scalable infrastructure. You will own end-to-end delivery, shape standards, and partner with leadership to align platform capabilities across teams.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and secure, resilient systems, with hands-on work across production-grade deployments and APIs for product teams.