Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure

Coinbase

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Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
13 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $174,600–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $206k for comparable roles.

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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 94 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $191,250–$218,900 across 85 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. You will own the reliability and automation of critical AI infrastructure, building production-grade distributed systems, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration across the full stack. Your daily work involves designing clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling to enable product teams to integrate AI capabilities. You will build full-stack applications using Go or Python while managing containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes. Technical requirements include experience with AWS, infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt, and Git-based CI/CD pipelines. You will solve technical dependencies and establish architectural patterns to ensure systems are resilient, observable, and secure at scale.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build production-grade distributed systems including serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration.
  • Design clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling to drive platform adoption.
  • Build full-stack applications for internal AI products using Go or Python.
  • Own the reliability, automation, observability, and security of critical AI infrastructure at scale.
  • Establish architectural patterns and engineering standards to improve code quality and operational excellence.
  • Manage and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Automate and support cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience automating and supporting cloud infrastructure (AWS) and network environments.
  • Hands-on experience with 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.
  • Proficiency in version control workflows using Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven history of designing reusable infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions adopted by multiple teams across an engineering organization.
  • Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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