Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation)Active$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

  • Architect and build Agentic AI systems that power Coinbase's compliance: automation and other Operations, from intelligent agents through orchestration and guardrails

  • Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks that ensure AI agents are: grounded, relevant, and reliably deliver customer delight with minimal hallucination

  • Lead technical direction for distributed systems underpinning AI automation,: defining architecture patterns and strategic roadmaps in partnership with engineering leadership

  • Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions that enable AI-powered: automation to scale across multiple domains beyond the initial customer support and compliance focus

  • Mentor engineers on AI system design techniques, coding standards, and: production-readiness practices for LLM-based applications

  • + years in software engineering with demonstrated experience architecting: distributed systems and shipping production AI/ML applications

What they're looking for

  • Experience working with LLM-based applications, familiarity with: measuring and improving grounding, reducing hallucinations, and building guardrails for reliability
  • Deep expertise designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for agentic AI systems at scale
  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.