Senior Backend Engineer — Remote-First AI & DevOps Tools

Coinbase, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI/CD, and policy systems.

You will lead adoption of a consistent merge workflow, collaborate with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product engineering, and push for observable, safe rollout of changes across Coinbase.

We value hands-on AI fluency and a track record of delivering across distributed systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in backend or distributed systems.
• Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms.
• Experience with CI/CD and source-control integrations.
• Strong security and authorization judgment.
• Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project.
• Hands-on AI fluency for AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase's Unified Merge Gate.
• 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.

Tools

CI/CD

Source-control integrations

Developer infrastructure

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI/CD, and policy systems.

You will lead adoption of a consistent merge workflow, collaborate with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product engineering, and push for observable, safe rollout of changes across Coinbase.

We value hands-on AI fluency and a track record of delivering across distributed systems at scale.