Staff Platform Engineer - CI/CD & Deployment Orchestration

Coinbase

Austin (TX)

Hybrid

USD 218,000 - 257,000

Full time

8 hours ago

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Job summary

Coinbase is hiring Staff Software Engineers across several teams within the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform. You'll own the tools and systems every Coinbase engineer depends on to build and ship software.

This team is responsible for scalable CI and build infrastructure and deployment orchestration. You'll set technical direction for the group's most complex, cross-cutting problems and lead their delivery from ambiguous problem statements through production operation, partnering with

Qualifications

8+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
Experience leading cross-team initiatives with architectural impact.
Strong track record delivering reliable, scalable backend/platform systems.

Responsibilities

Own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, across the full lifecycle from design through production operation.
Identify the group's highest-leverage problems, turn ambiguous challenges into concrete roadmaps, and drive alignment across dependent teams.
Drive improvements to build/CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and developer feedback latency.
Lead strategic, cross-cutting initiatives end to end, including large-scale platform migrations and their rollout across many teams.
Raise the reliability bar for developer infrastructure via SLOs, observability, and on-call practices.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and shared ownership while shaping technical strategy with Coinbase leadership.