Remote-First Staff Software Engineer: AI Platform & Scale

Coinbase, Inc.; Dover (DE); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401

Remote-friendly with quarterly in‑per‑

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead AI maturity and developer-experience across eight CX squads.

You will architect scalable backend services, drive platform excellence, and shape build-versus-buy decisions for AI tooling on Coinbase's production AI platform. You’ll own SLOs, ensure secure, compliant operations in a regulated environment, and mentor teams while delivering high-impact, business-ready outputs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong backend service design, API development with gRPC, MCP, GraphQL.
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Security-aware development with audit logging and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap with engineering leadership.
• Lead platform-excellence workstreams to improve reliability and observability.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-tools and AI tooling.
• Provide staff-level architectural coverage across CX squads.
• Build highly reliable, secure distributed backend services with full SLO ownership.

Skills

Backend service design

API development (gRPC, MCP, GraphQL)

Distributed systems

Cloud-native (AWS)

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Event-driven (Kafka, MQ)

SQL/NoSQL databases

Security controls/audit logging

Tools

Go

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead AI maturity and developer-experience across eight CX squads.

You will architect scalable backend services, drive platform excellence, and shape build-versus-buy decisions for AI tooling on Coinbase's production AI platform. You’ll own SLOs, ensure secure, compliant operations in a regulated environment, and mentor teams while delivering high-impact, business-ready outputs.