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 deliver foundational platform capabilities including MCP tool: registries, AI orchestration layers, risk-based access automation, and the away-team contribution model that enables product groups across Coinbase to build on the platform safely and at speed
Drive the evolution of Control Center into an AI-agent-ready, headless: operations platform, designing and implementing MCP procedure constructs, agentic guardrails, HITL orchestration, and evaluation frameworks that enable both human and autonomous AI agents to execute sensitive customer operations securely
Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product counterparts to define: architectural roadmaps, author TDDs, lead design reviews, decompose complex initiatives into deliverable milestones, and raise the engineering quality bar through code review and mentorship
Build and maintain highly reliable, secure, distributed backend services,: owning SLO definitions, observability instrumentation, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 platform systems
Collaborate across EAA engineering teams, Product Engineering, and Security: Engineering to deliver cross-functional outcomes and drive shared platform primitives that eliminate duplicated infrastructure across the portfolio
+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a demonstrated: track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems in production, including deep proficiency in backend service design, API development (gRPC, MCP, GraphQL), and scalable microservices architectures
What they're looking for
- Proven ability to independently lead ambiguous, high-impact technical: initiatives from whiteboard to production, writing high-quality, well-tested code and setting the standard for others across complex, multi-team problem spaces
- Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure and the modern backend: stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite/CircleCI, event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ), distributed caching (Redis/Memcached), and proficiency in SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Track record of building secure, compliant internal tools or platforms, with: deep appreciation for security controls, access management, audit logging, data governance, and engineering rigor in a regulated financial services environment
- Experience building or integrating with agentic AI systems, including MCP: servers, LLM orchestration layers, RAG pipelines, HITL workflows, or evaluation and guardrail frameworks for production agentic workloads
