Staff Agentic AI Engineer — Scaling Orchestration

Coinbase; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect Agentic AI systems powering compliance automation and operations at scale. You will lead the technical direction for distributed AI systems, design foundational APIs, and build reusable orchestration primitives to enable company-wide automation.

You will mentor engineers on production-ready practices for LLM-based applications. The role emphasizes ownership of AI system design, reliability, and measurable customer impact in a

Qualifications

• Experience architecting distributed systems for production AI/ML applications.
• Hands-on with LLM-based pipelines, grounding, hallucination mitigation, guardrails.
• Deep expertise in designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for agentic AI.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems powering compliance automation and operations.
• Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks for reliable, low-hallucination AI agents.
• Lead distributed systems direction and define architecture patterns and roadmaps with engineering leadership.
• Create reusable primitives and orchestration solutions to scale AI-powered automation across domains.
• Mentor engineers on AI system design, production-readiness, and best practices for LLM apps.

Skills

Distributed systems design

LLM-based applications

API design & orchestration

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect Agentic AI systems powering compliance automation and operations at scale. You will lead the technical direction for distributed AI systems, design foundational APIs, and build reusable orchestration primitives to enable company-wide automation.

You will mentor engineers on production-ready practices for LLM-based applications. The role emphasizes ownership of AI system design, reliability, and measurable customer impact in a