Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure

Coinbase

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
50 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $205k
This role $237k
$148k most similar roles pay here $268k

This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $171,875–$237,509 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $205k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $215,177–$253,150 across 50 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure

As a Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure, you will join the IT Operations team within ESTO to drive AI transformation through full-stack engineering and infrastructure scaling. You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of production-grade distributed systems, including serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration across the entire software development life cycle. Your daily work involves designing clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling to facilitate internal AI product integration while ensuring system reliability and observability. You will build full-stack applications using Go or Python within a high-paced incubator environment. The role requires expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt. You will also manage Git-based CI/CD pipelines to solve complex technical dependencies across various product groups.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build production-grade distributed systems including serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration across the full stack.
  • Design clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling to enable product teams to integrate AI capabilities.
  • Manage and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Automate and support cloud infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
  • Develop full-stack applications for internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.
  • Establish architectural patterns, mentor engineers, and define standards for code quality and observability.
  • Resolve cross-team technical dependencies and define shared platform contracts with engineering and product leadership.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
  • Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
  • Proven experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language including Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go.
  • Experience with version control workflows using Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to design reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions for multi-team adoption.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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