Staff Developer Infrastructure Software Engineer
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Summary
Staff engineer owning Coinbase's developer infrastructure platforms (CI/build, deployment orchestration), setting technical direction, driving cross-team initiatives to improve build/deploy metrics, and mentoring engineers. Core technologies: Go, distributed systems, CI/CD.
- We are hiring Staff Software Engineers across several teams within the Developer Infrastructure group in Platform
- You’ll own the tools and systems every Coinbase engineer depends on to build and ship software
- This team is responsible for scalable CI and build infrastructure and deployment orchestration, where a single improvement compounds across thousands of engineers
- You’ll set technical direction for the group’s most complex, cross-cutting problems and lead their delivery from ambiguous problem statements through production operation
- 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 step-change improvements to the metrics every engineer feels: 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, designing systems that recover fast rather than cascade into company-wide incidents
- Partner with engineering customers, EMs, and leadership across Coinbase to shape technical strategy and drive org-wide adoption of what you build, while mentoring engineers through design review, pairing, and shared ownership
- Deep operational expertise with production systems where downtime has a broad blast radius, including designing for reliability, observability, and fast recovery from day one
- Proven ability to drive alignment on ambiguous, cross-functional problems and to raise the technical bar around you through mentorship, design review, and clear written and verbal communication
- Demonstrated technical leadership on cross-team initiatives: setting architectural direction, driving org-wide alignment, and making decisions that held up at scale, while staying close enough to the code to lead by example
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems, with hands-on proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language and direct experience in 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, owning them from ambiguous problem statements through long-term production operation