Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Details

Coinbase is hiring Staff Software Engineers across several teams within the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform. You will own the tools and systems that Coinbase engineers depend on to build and ship software, including scalable CI and build infrastructure and deployment orchestration. You will set technical direction for complex, cross-cutting problems and lead delivery from ambiguous problem statements through production operation.

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only, company. Employees are expected to meet quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”

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 improvements to 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, and by designing systems that recover quickly rather than cascade into company-wide incidents.
• Partner with engineering customers, engineering managers, and leadership across Coinbase to shape technical strategy and drive organization-wide adoption.
• Mentor engineers through design review, pairing, and shared ownership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language.
• Direct experience with CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.
• Track record of designing and shipping high-impact backend or platform systems that many engineers and services depend on, from ambiguous problem statements through long-term production operation.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on cross-team initiatives, including setting architectural direction, driving organization-wide alignment, and making decisions that hold up at scale while remaining close enough to the code to lead by example.
• Deep operational expertise with production systems where downtime has a broad blast radius, including designing for reliability, observability, and fast recovery from day one.
• Ability to drive alignment on ambiguous, cross-functional problems and raise the technical bar through mentorship, design review, and clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary: $218,025–$256,500 USD, excluding equity and bonus.
• Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Candidates may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.