Senior ML Platform Engineer - Build Low-Latency AI Infra

Coinbase, Inc.; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build the infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company.

The role directly impacts fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analytics, while shaping how ML scales at Coinbase. You will own streaming pipelines, distributed training, and highly available inference services, mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards to deliver production-grade systems

Qualifications

• 5+ years building distributed systems in production.
• Experience with low-latency data or ML infrastructure.
• Mentored engineers and driven engineering quality.
• Familiarity with ML platform components and serving frameworks.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure with high availability and low latency.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines for feature data to production models.
• Improve distributed training infrastructure for efficient large data processing.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality and model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency infra

Mentoring

Platform ownership

Generative AI governance

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build the infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company.

The role directly impacts fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analytics, while shaping how ML scales at Coinbase. You will own streaming pipelines, distributed training, and highly available inference services, mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards to deliver production-grade systems