Senior ML Platform Engineer - Remote-First ML Infra

Coinbase, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build foundational ML infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company.

You will influence systems spanning streaming, distributed training, and high-availability inference, shaping how ML scales for fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analysis. You will own design and reliability, build low-latency pipelines, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering

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 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 to partner with ML engineers as a platform builder.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency infra

Mentoring engineers

ML platform components

Generative AI governance

Tools

Streaming pipelines

Model serving frameworks

Training orchestration

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build foundational ML infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company.

You will influence systems spanning streaming, distributed training, and high-availability inference, shaping how ML scales for fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analysis. You will own design and reliability, build low-latency pipelines, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering