Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

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Staff Software Engineer owning Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms. Improving CI, build, deployment speed, reliability, and developer productivity across thousands of engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, from design through production operation
  • Identify high-leverage problems and turn ambiguous challenges into concrete technical roadmaps
  • Drive improvements to build and CI wall time, deploy speed and safety, and developer feedback latency
  • Lead strategic cross-cutting initiatives, including large-scale platform migrations, across many teams
  • Own SLOs, observability, and on-call for developer infrastructure
  • Design systems that recover quickly and avoid company-wide incidents
  • Partner with engineering customers, engineering managers, and leadership to shape technical strategy and drive organization-wide adoption
  • Mentor engineers through design review, pairing, and shared ownership

Requirements:

  • 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems
  • Hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language
  • Direct experience in CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling
  • Track record of designing and shipping high-impact backend or platform systems
  • Experience owning systems from ambiguous problem statements through long-term production operation
  • Demonstrated technical leadership on cross-team initiatives
  • Experience setting architectural direction and driving organization-wide alignment
  • Deep operational expertise with production systems where downtime has a broad blast radius
  • Experience designing for reliability, observability, and fast recovery
  • Ability to drive alignment on ambiguous, cross-functional problems
  • Ability to raise the technical bar through mentorship and design review
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight

Benefits:

  • Equity eligibility
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”)
  • Reasonable accommodation support
  • Free compatible screen reader for applicants needing screen reading technology