Senior Backend Engineer - Remote-First, AI-Driven Dev Infra

Coinbase, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agent Verification team, you will design backend services and integrations that power the Unified Merge Gate, CI pipelines, and policy systems, collaborating with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure to deliver safe, scalable changes.

You should have 7+ years in backend or distributed systems, strong Go knowledge, API design experience, and hands-on AI fluency to improve how

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend or platform experience.
• Strong Go knowledge and distributed systems experience.
• Experience designing APIs, durable state and observability.
• Hands-on AI fluency and CI/CD experience; policy systems knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate.
• Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments into one merge decision.
• Build backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI and policy systems.
• Migrate repositories with safe rollouts and observable decisions.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow and repository owners to support workflows.
• Measure impact on human-review, time-to-merge, and quality.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

API design

CI/CD

Security judgment

AI fluency

Tools

GitHub integrations

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agent Verification team, you will design backend services and integrations that power the Unified Merge Gate, CI pipelines, and policy systems, collaborating with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure to deliver safe, scalable changes.

You should have 7+ years in backend or distributed systems, strong Go knowledge, API design experience, and hands-on AI fluency to improve how