Staff AI Automation Engineer — Scalable Agentic Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team in the Platform group. You will architect AI systems and drive production-grade automation at scale.

You'll own the technical direction for AI-enabled operations across the company, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, low- hallucination experiences that delight customers. This is a remote-first company with in-person Surge sessions and quarterly gatherings; Madison, WI area candidates

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Experience with LLM-based applications and guardrails for reliability.
• Deep expertise in API design and orchestration for AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems powering compliance automation.
• Design APIs and measurement frameworks for grounded AI agents.
• Lead technical direction for distributed AI automation architectures.
• Build reusable orchestration primitives to scale AI-powered automation.
• Mentor engineers on AI system design and production-readiness.

Skills

Distributed systems

LLM applications

APIs & orchestration

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team in the Platform group. You will architect AI systems and drive production-grade automation at scale.

You'll own the technical direction for AI-enabled operations across the company, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, low- hallucination experiences that delight customers. This is a remote-first company with in-person Surge sessions and quarterly gatherings; Madison, WI area candidates