Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure
"What You'll Be Doing"
What You'll Be Doing
Own core developer infrastructure platforms—CI/build systems and deployment orchestration—across the full lifecycle, from design through production operation.
Identify the group's highest-leverage problems, turning ambiguous and unscoped challenges into concrete technical roadmaps, and drive alignment across dependent teams.
Drive step-change improvements to metrics every engineer feels, including 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 quickly rather than cascade into company-wide incidents.
Partner with engineering customers, engineering managers, 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.
What We're Looking For
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.
A 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.
Demonstrated technical leadership on cross-team initiatives, including 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.
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.
Responsible use of generative AI, with human oversight, to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Why Join Us
Annual base salary range of $218,025–$256,500 USD (excluding equity and bonus); total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)), with base salary varying by location.
About Base
Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users onchain. Built on the open-source OP Stack by Coinbase.
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Base's official website and follow their application process.