Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core Automation

CoinbaseNorth AmericaLead12+ years experienceMachine Learning Engineering

The role

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for its Core Automation team to build agentic AI systems for customer support and compliance, plus a reusable platform other teams can adopt. Coinbase is remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions.

What you will do

  • Own design and implementation of agentic AI systems for customer support and compliance automation.
  • Architect reusable primitives, orchestration tools and interfaces so other teams can adopt agentic AI.
  • Align product, compliance and operations stakeholders on scalable technical solutions.
  • Lead the path from LLM prototype to production, covering grounding, hallucination reduction and reliability.
  • Mentor engineers on system design, coding standards and AI/ML practice.

What they ask for

  • 12+ years of backend software engineering, with deep proficiency in Go or a similar systems language.
  • Shipped LLM-based or agentic AI applications to production, with measurable gains in grounding and hallucination reduction.
  • Experience architecting distributed systems at large scale in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Experience working with non-technical stakeholders in compliance, operations and support.
  • Record of influencing technical direction across teams and mentoring senior engineers.

What they offer

  • Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits
  • Remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Coinbase's careers page behind the apply button.

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