Staff Software Engineer, Dev Infra — Scale CI/CD Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform.

You will own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, across the full lifecycle from design through production operation. You’ll identify high-leverage problems, translate ambiguous challenges into concrete roadmaps, and drive alignment across dependent teams while leading cross-cutting initiatives end to end.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• Hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language and CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.
• Technical leadership on cross-team initiatives and architectural direction.

Responsibilities

• Own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, from design to production operation.
• Identify high-leverage problems, turn ambiguous challenges into concrete roadmaps, and drive alignment across teams.
• Improve metrics like build/CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and developer feedback latency.
• Lead large-scale platform migrations end-to-end across multiple teams.
• Raise reliability via SLOs, observability, and fast recovery to prevent incidents.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and shared ownership, shaping technical strategy.

Skills

Go

CI/CD

Deployment tooling

Distributed systems

Leadership

Observability

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring Staff Software Engineers for the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform.

You will own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, across the full lifecycle from design through production operation. You’ll identify high-leverage problems, translate ambiguous challenges into concrete roadmaps, and drive alignment across dependent teams while leading cross-cutting initiatives end to end.