Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure at Coinbase

**Who this is for** This position is for an experienced Staff-level SRE ready to take ownership of complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects and provide

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - USA

Salary: $218,025 – $256,500/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This position is for an experienced Staff-level SRE ready to take ownership of complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects and provide technical leadership for AI initiatives in the fast-evolving financial technology space. **Key highlights** You will serve as a technical architect, shaping the technological roadmap and driving innovation in AI deployment frameworks, while collaborating directly with leadership to ensure operational excellence and secure, scalable service delivery. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Bring 10+ years of deep experience in network infrastructure and cloud automation. - Have mastered container orchestration (Kubernetes) and complex CI/CD workflows at scale. - Are an expert in cloud security practices, incident response, and maintaining strict SLAs. - Have a demonstrated track record of using generative AI tools to drive efficiency in engineering workflows.

Job Description

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our [work culture](https://www.coinbase.com/mission) is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• AI-Driven Innovation:Join a high-performing team of skilled engineers driving AI transformation at Coinbase. This role involves leading the development of scalable AI products with direct exposure to high-level executives, focusing on rapid ideation, execution, and delivering impactful solutions in a dynamic, incubator-style environment.

• Partner with the Coinbase Infrastructure team to support and extend existing ci/cd frameworks to support IT services, including enterprise network platforms

• Partner with security and compliance to build surveillance tooling into deployment pipelines

• Design and implement automation to streamline overall operational IT support workflows

• Action Kubernetes deployment, implementation, and support

• Build a technological roadmap based on product requirements

• Participate in on-call to support the AWS service deployment pipeline

• Promote DevSecOps mentality and establish best practices to ensure top-tier cloud security

• Set and maintain a standard of excellence for technical documentation across IT engineering

• Participate in an operational environment with strict SLAs and managed incident response and disaster recovery strategies

• Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis and blameless retrospectives

• Define metrics and design/implement automation opportunities based on monitoring/observability

• Developing and maintaining integrations with other systems, such as source control and build systems

• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues with internal toolings

• 10+ years experience supporting network infrastructure

• 10+ years experience automating cloud infrastructure

• Proficient in at least one scripting languages (Bash, python, Ruby, Go, etc)

• Proficiency with version control using CI/CD (Git)

• Strong experience supporting AWS services and CI/CD workflows using terraform or equivalent framework

• Strong experience with configuration management systems like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt

• Strong experience with containers and containers orchestration like Docker and Kubernetes

• Demonstrated ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality

• Expertise with linux, bash, ruby, python and/or go

• Expertise automating EC2 or containers deployment with terraform

• Strong network security fundamentals

• Experience managing and leveraging log aggregation

• Experience working in a highly regulated environment

• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth company

• Experience in a Remote-first IT environment

Pay Transparency Notice:Depending on your work location, the target annual basesalary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

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

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

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