Staff AI Platform Engineer – DX & Tier-1 Systems (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group. You will anchor AI maturity and developer-experience across CX squads, architect scalable, secure backend services, and drive platform excellence for Tier-1 systems.

You will own build-versus-buy decisions for AI tooling, ensure reliability and observability, and partner with engineering leadership to surface opportunities and deliver impactful solutions across a global team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from whiteboard to production.
• Strong cloud-native infrastructure experience: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD.
• Experience building secure, compliant internal tools or platforms with strong data governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap with engineering leadership.
• Lead platform-excellence workstreams to improve reliability, observability, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-experience and AI tooling across EAA-CX.
• Provide Staff-level architectural coverage across squads facing complex challenges.
• Build highly reliable, secure distributed backend services with full SLO ownership and incident response.

Skills

Backend design

API development

gRPC

GraphQL

Microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security/compliance

Go

Python

Agentic AI

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Tools

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group. You will anchor AI maturity and developer-experience across CX squads, architect scalable, secure backend services, and drive platform excellence for Tier-1 systems.

You will own build-versus-buy decisions for AI tooling, ensure reliability and observability, and partner with engineering leadership to surface opportunities and deliver impactful solutions across a global team.