Staff Platform Infra Engineer — High-Impact, Remote-First

Coinbase, Inc.; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform. You will own CI/build and deployment orchestration platforms, guiding them from design to production and setting the technical direction for cross-team programs.

You will mentor engineers, drive high-impact platform migrations, improve build and deploy metrics, and raise the reliability bar with SLOs, observability, and fast recovery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• Proficient in Go or a comparable systems language with CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.
• Designed and shipped backend/platform systems used by many engineers, from problem statements to production.
• Led cross-team initiatives, set architectural direction, and ensured scale.
• Strong focus on reliability, observability, and fast recovery from day one.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive alignment through design reviews.
• Experience using AI responsibly with human oversight.

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

Build systems

Deployment tooling

Distributed systems

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform. You will own CI/build and deployment orchestration platforms, guiding them from design to production and setting the technical direction for cross-team programs.

You will mentor engineers, drive high-impact platform migrations, improve build and deploy metrics, and raise the reliability bar with SLOs, observability, and fast recovery.