Senior Backend Engineer - Remote-First, AI-Driven Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across source control, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows.

You will lead the adoption of a consistent merge path, collaborating with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product teams to improve how changes are reviewed and shipped. The role requires Go expertise, distributed systems experience, and hands-on AI fluency, with a strong emphasis on safe rollouts and

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. The candidate should know how to use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows.

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 language

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

CI/CD integrations

Security awareness

AI fluency

Tools

GitHub integrations

AWS

Kubernetes

Policy systems

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across source control, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows.

You will lead the adoption of a consistent merge path, collaborating with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product teams to improve how changes are reviewed and shipped. The role requires Go expertise, distributed systems experience, and hands-on AI fluency, with a strong emphasis on safe rollouts and