Senior ML Platform Engineer: Real-Time Inference

Coinbase, Inc.; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401

K)

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. The Senior ML Platform Engineer will build the infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training and inference across Coinbase, supporting fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analysis.

You'll own distributed systems, low-latency streaming pipelines, and scalable training. You will develop observability tools and mentor junior engineers to raise engineering standards while delivering reliable,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer with ownership of distributed systems in production.
• Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training).
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising engineering quality through code/design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure delivering models and LLMs at scale.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines delivering fresh feature data to production models.
• Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure for large data volumes.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality and model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency ML infra

Mentoring

ML platform components

Generative AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. The Senior ML Platform Engineer will build the infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training and inference across Coinbase, supporting fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analysis.

You'll own distributed systems, low-latency streaming pipelines, and scalable training. You will develop observability tools and mentor junior engineers to raise engineering standards while delivering reliable,