Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure

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Staff Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure

You'll join a high-performing team of engineers driving AI transformation at Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer on the IT Operations team within ESTO. This team builds custom products through full-stack engineering and scales the infrastructure powering Coinbase's AI products, with direct exposure to senior leadership in a fast-paced, incubator-style environment. You'll own the reliability and automation of critical AI infrastructure, ensuring our systems are resilient, observable, and secure at scale.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems, including serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration across the full stack throughout the SDLC.
• Drive platform adoption by designing clean APIs, abstractions, and developer-facing tooling that enable product teams to integrate AI capabilities without bespoke infrastructure requests.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership across Platform and other product groups to align infrastructure requirements, resolve cross-team technical dependencies, and define shared platform contracts.
• Shape engineering standards and technical culture by establishing architectural patterns, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar on code quality, observability, and operational excellence.
• Build full-stack applications that power internal AI products and infrastructure using Go or Python.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems in Go or Python.
• Proven experience designing and building APIs, data pipelines, and serving infrastructure that other engineering teams depend on at scale.
• Platform-builder mindset with a track record of designing reusable abstractions, libraries, and developer-facing tooling adopted by multiple teams across an engineering organization.
• Demonstrated history of researching, evaluating, and implementing emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tooling to keep production systems at the forefront of industry capabilities.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). 

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):$218,025—$256,500 USD

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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