Senior ML Platform Engineer: Scalable Inference & Streaming

Coinbase, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to design and operate the foundational ML infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and model serving at scale. You’ll influence fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analytics across a high‑impact platform.

You will own streaming pipelines, low-latency serving, and scalable training, while mentoring others and improving observability and reliability across production systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building distributed systems in production.
• Experience with low-latency data/ML infrastructure at scale.
• Mentors engineers and improves code quality through reviews.
• Familiarity with ML platform components for collaboration with ML engineers.
• Responsible use of generative AI with oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure for models and LLMs.
• Build low-latency streaming pipelines delivering fresh feature data.
• Improve distributed training infrastructure for large data volumes.
• Develop observability to monitor data quality and model degradation.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency infra

Mentoring

ML platform components

Generative AI usage

Tools

Streaming pipelines

Model serving frameworks

Training orchestration

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to design and operate the foundational ML infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and model serving at scale. You’ll influence fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analytics across a high‑impact platform.

You will own streaming pipelines, low-latency serving, and scalable training, while mentoring others and improving observability and reliability across production systems.