Senior Software Engineer, Core AI Infrastructure at Coinbase
Atlanta, GA
$218,025–$256,500from the description
Aug 6, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff-level infrastructure engineering role on Coinbase's IT Operations / ESTO team, focused on building and owning the AI infrastructure platform that powers internal and customer-facing AI products. The work spans distributed systems, data pipelines, deployment orchestration, and developer-facing APIs and tooling in Go or Python, with cross-team architectural influence and a mandate to set engineering standards.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 17 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,650–6,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title says 'Staff Software Engineer' but the body text introduces the role as 'Senior Software Engineer on the IT Operations team' — an internal inconsistency. The title framing is used for the level advertised in the title; the actual scope (cross-team platform ownership, architectural standards, 8+ years) supports Staff.
The IaC requirement lists Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt as interchangeable options; Terraform is used as the primary name with the others captured as alternatives.
Python, Bash, Ruby, and Go are listed as interchangeable language options in the required section; Python is used as the primary name. Go is also called out separately in the narrative ('Go or Python') as the preferred language for full-stack application work, so it is also listed as a preferred skill.
The alt SOC (15-1244) reflects the strong infrastructure/operations framing, but the role clearly ships code (distributed systems, APIs, full-stack applications), making 15-1252 the better fit.
Compensation is base salary only; equity and bonus eligibility are mentioned but not quantified. Location is not specified — Coinbase is remote-first and the posting gives a single US-wide salary range.
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