Staff Platform Engineer – Developer Infra, Remote-First

Coinbase, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform. You will own tools and systems used by thousands of engineers, focusing on CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and reliability.

You will set technical direction and lead cross-team initiatives, delivering scalable infrastructure and robust observability. With 8+ years in production distributed systems and proficiency in Go, you will mentor engineers, drive architectural alignment, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• Hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language.
• Experience with CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.
• Strong technical leadership on cross-team initiatives.
• Operational expertise for reliable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration.
• Identify high-leverage problems and drive cross-team alignment.
• Improve build/CI wall time, deploy speed, and feedback latency.
• Lead large-scale platform migrations end-to-end.
• Own SLOs, observability, and on-call for reliability.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy across Coinbase.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Leadership

Observability

AI responsibly

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Coinbase is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform. You will own tools and systems used by thousands of engineers, focusing on CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and reliability.

You will set technical direction and lead cross-team initiatives, delivering scalable infrastructure and robust observability. With 8+ years in production distributed systems and proficiency in Go, you will mentor engineers, drive architectural alignment, and