Senior ML Platform Engineer: Scalable Inference & Streaming

Coinbase, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build and maintain the core ML infrastructure. You will own inference services, streaming pipelines, and distributed training, enabling reliable model deployment across the company.

Join a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges to push collaboration and innovation. You’ll mentor engineers while advancing platform capabilities that power fraud detection, personalization, and analytics at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building distributed systems in production.
• Experience with low-latency streaming and serving systems.
• Proven mentoring and architectural leadership.
• Familiarity with ML platform components and tooling.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure at scale.
• Build ultra-low-latency streaming data pipelines for models.
• Improve distributed training and model serving capabilities.
• Develop observability to monitor data quality and model drift.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise coding standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency infra

Mentoring engineers

ML platform components

Generative AI governance

Tools

Feature stores

Model serving frameworks

Training orchestration

Observability tooling

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build and maintain the core ML infrastructure. You will own inference services, streaming pipelines, and distributed training, enabling reliable model deployment across the company.

Join a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges to push collaboration and innovation. You’ll mentor engineers while advancing platform capabilities that power fraud detection, personalization, and analytics at scale.