Remote Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Merge Gate

Coinbase, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows. You will guide the unified merge gate and partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product teams.

We value 7+ years in backend or distributed systems, Go or similar languages, API design, durable state, observability, and safe rollout methods.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems experience in Go or a comparable language.
• Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms.
• Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane.
• Strong security and authorization judgment; understand risk of convenient but weak gates.
• Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and ownership.
• Hands-on AI fluency; know how to use AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate, determining when a change can merge and what remains before it proceeds.
• Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity attestations, and human judgment into one merge decision.
• Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI, and Coinbase’s policy systems.
• Migrate repositories from fragmented controls to the Unified Merge Gate with safe rollouts and observable decisions.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows.
• Measure impact on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, and defect escape rates.

Skills

Go

Backend

Distributed systems

CI/CD

APIs

Security and authorization

AI fluency

Tools

GitHub integrations

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows. You will guide the unified merge gate and partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product teams.

We value 7+ years in backend or distributed systems, Go or similar languages, API design, durable state, observability, and safe rollout methods.