Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification

Coinbase, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows. You will guide the unified merge gate and partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product teams.

We value 7+ years in backend or distributed systems, Go or similar languages, API design, durable state, observability, and safe rollout methods.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems experience in Go or a comparable language.
• Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms.
• Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane.
• Strong security and authorization judgment; understand risk of convenient but weak gates.
• Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and ownership.
• Hands-on AI fluency; know how to use AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate, determining when a change can merge and what remains before it proceeds.
• Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity attestations, and human judgment into one merge decision.
• Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI, and Coinbase’s policy systems.
• Migrate repositories from fragmented controls to the Unified Merge Gate with safe rollouts and observable decisions.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows.
• Measure impact on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, and defect escape rates.

Skills

Go

Backend

Distributed systems

CI/CD

APIs

Security and authorization

AI fluency

Tools

GitHub integrations

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Agent Verification builds systems that help Coinbase safely ship software in an AI-native development environment. The team develops automated code review, risk and policy evaluation, CI evidence, and merge controls that reduce routine manual work while preserving human judgment for higher-risk changes.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build reliable backend services and integrations across source control, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows. You will lead the adoption of a consistent and observable merge path, partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams, and improve how software changes are reviewed and shipped across Coinbase.

We are looking for an experienced backend or platform engineer who has built distributed systems, developer infrastructure, CI/CD integrations, authorization or policy systems, or other high-reliability control planes. Experience with Go, GitHub integrations, AWS, Kubernetes, AI-assisted development, or policy-as-code is helpful.

What you'll do:

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate, the system that determines whether a change can merge and explains what remains before it can proceed.
• Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity and attestation evidence, and required human judgment into one merge decision.
• Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI and other Coinbase’s policy systems.
• Migrate repositories from fragmented legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate, with safe rollouts, observable decisions, and clear rollback paths.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows.
• Measure the effect on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years experience
• Strong backend and distributed-systems experience in Go or a comparable language.
• Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms.
• Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane.
• Strong security and authorization judgment. The engineer must understand why a technically convenient path may weaken a production gate.
• Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and operational ownership.
• Hands-on AI fluency. The candidate should know how to use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows rather than discuss them only at a conceptual level.

*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$186,065—$218,900 USD

• *Equal Opportunity Employer: *Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• *US Applicants: *View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
• *Accommodations: *If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com.