Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Identity

Coinbase, Inc.; Helena (MT); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to shape the foundations of our ML infrastructure. You will own systems for feature engineering, training, and inference across fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analytics.

You will influence streaming, distributed training, and highly available inference services at scale. You will mentor junior engineers, improve production-grade software, and collaborate with ML teams to deliver reliable, cost-efficient

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with ownership of distributed systems in production.
• Experience building/operating low-latency ML infra (streaming pipelines, online serving, or distributed training).
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and improving code/design quality.
• Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving, training orchestration).
• Commitment to responsible AI with human oversight to improve workflows, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines for fresh feature data.
• Advance distributed training infrastructure for large-scale ML workloads.
• Develop observability tooling for data quality and model performance monitoring.
• Mentor engineers to raise engineering standards and production quality.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Technical leadership

ML platform components

Responsible AI

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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