Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation)New$46K–$183K

The opportunity

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.

What you'll do

  • Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems that power Coinbase's: customer support and compliance automation, from LLM orchestration through production deployment and monitoring.

  • Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Golang that: serves AI workloads, including model integration pipelines, guardrails, grounding mechanisms, and measurement frameworks.

  • Drive end-to-end project execution on complex AI initiatives, making: technical trade-offs across latency, accuracy, cost, and reliability.

  • Partner with Customer Experience, Compliance, and product engineering teams: to identify high-impact automation opportunities and translate operational pain points into AI-powered solutions.

  • Strengthen engineering quality across the team by leading code reviews,: mentoring engineers on AI system design patterns, and contributing to on-call rotations and incident response.

  • + years of experience in software engineering, with proven expertise in: designing, building, and maintaining production services using a microservices architecture.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications or AI/ML systems in: production, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agentic AI frameworks.
  • Proficiency in Python and Golang (or comparable backend languages), with: experience integrating third-party AI models and APIs into production workflows.
  • Track record of delivering end-to-end projects with measurable business impact in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Experience building data pipelines, integrating with external vendors, or: working with large-scale unstructured data sources (e.g., blockchain data, customer interaction logs).