Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build foundational ML infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and serving. You will own systems across streaming, training, and inference, shaping how ML scales company-wide.

Responsibilities include designing reliable inference services, low-latency pipelines, training orchestration, and observability. Mentoring others and upholding responsible AI practices are essential components of the role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with distributed systems in production.
• Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure processing data at scale.
• Mentored engineers and raised team engineering quality through reviews.
• Familiar with ML platform components sufficient to partner with ML engineers.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving models.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines for production features.
• Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure for scalable workloads.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards over time.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency infra

Mentoring

ML platform

Generative AI governance

Tools

Model serving frameworks

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”learn more about working at Coinbase.

Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team within the Platform group, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across Coinbase. The platform you build supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis. You'll own critical systems spanning stream processing, distributed training, and highly available inference services, directly shaping how ML scales across the company.

What you'll do:

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
• Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
• Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
• Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$191,250—$225,000 USD

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