Staff Platform Engineer — Scalable CI/CD & Deployments

Coinbase, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers in the Developer Infrastructure group. You will own the tools and systems every Coinbase engineer relies on, including CI and build infrastructure and deployment orchestration.

You will set technical direction and lead delivery from ambiguous problems to production operations. The role emphasizes cross-team leadership, reliability, observability, and mentoring engineers while partnering with customers and leadership to shape tech strategy and

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• Hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language with CI/CD or deployment tooling experience.
• Proven capability to lead cross-team initiatives and mentor engineers.

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 and unscoped challenges into concrete technical roadmaps, and drive alignment across dependent teams.
• Drive step-change improvements to the metrics every engineer feels: build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and developer feedback latency.
• Lead strategic, cross-cutting initiatives end to end, including large-scale platform migrations, landing them across many teams alongside the engineers doing the work.
• Raise the reliability bar for developer infrastructure by owning SLOs, observability, and on-call, designing systems that recover fast rather than cascade into company-wide incidents.
• Partner with engineering customers, EMs, and leadership across Coinbase to shape technical strategy and drive org-wide adoption of what you build, while mentoring engineers through design review, pairing, and shared ownership.

Skills

Go

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Observability

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers in the Developer Infrastructure group. You will own the tools and systems every Coinbase engineer relies on, including CI and build infrastructure and deployment orchestration.

You will set technical direction and lead delivery from ambiguous problems to production operations. The role emphasizes cross-team leadership, reliability, observability, and mentoring engineers while partnering with customers and leadership to shape tech strategy and