Senior Backend Engineer, Agent Verification & AI Security

Coinbase; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services and integrations for the Unified Merge Gate. You will lead cross-functional collaboration across Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product engineering to enable safe, observable merge decisions and scalable developer workflows.

The role emphasizes Go backend expertise, distributed systems, and AI-enabled development workflows, with a focus on robust rollout strategies and policy-driven automation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years 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.
• Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and operational ownership.
• Hands-on AI fluency.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate, the system that determines whether a change can merge and explains what remains before it can proceed.
• Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity and attestation evidence, and required human judgment into one merge decision.
• Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI and other Coinbase’s policy systems.
• Migrate repositories from fragmented legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate, with safe rollouts, observable decisions, and clear rollback paths.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows.
• Measure the effect on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects.

Skills

Go backend

Distributed systems

APIs design

CI/CD

Security & auth

Cross-team leadership

AI fluency

Tools

GitHub integrations

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services and integrations for the Unified Merge Gate. You will lead cross-functional collaboration across Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product engineering to enable safe, observable merge decisions and scalable developer workflows.

The role emphasizes Go backend expertise, distributed systems, and AI-enabled development workflows, with a focus on robust rollout strategies and policy-driven automation.