Specialty
The role
Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer on the Customer Administration Engineering team, which builds Control Center, an internal operations platform used by about 7,000 employees. The work is turning it into a platform ready for AI agents. The company is remote-first.
What you will do
- Build platform capabilities such as MCP tool registries, AI orchestration layers and risk-based access automation
- Evolve Control Center into a headless platform with agent guardrails, human-in-the-loop orchestration and evaluation frameworks
- Define architectural roadmaps, write design docs and lead design reviews with the Engineering Manager and Product
- Build reliable, secure backend services and own SLOs, observability and incident response
- Work with other engineering and security teams on shared platform building blocks
- Mentor engineers through code review
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering building large-scale distributed systems
- Deep backend and API experience: gRPC, MCP, GraphQL and microservices
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite or CircleCI, Kafka, Redis and SQL or NoSQL databases
- Experience building secure, compliant internal platforms with access control and audit logging
- Experience with agentic AI systems such as MCP servers, RAG pipelines and guardrail frameworks
- Proficiency in Go, with willingness to work in Python
- Ability to lead ambiguous initiatives from design to production
What they offer
- Equity and bonus eligibility on top of base salary
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Remote-first, with quarterly in-person working sessions
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