Staff AI Platform Engineer — Remote, High-Impact

Coinbase; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead AI maturity and developer-experience initiatives across CX squads. You will architect reliable distributed services and guide platform excellence to raise engineering quality across the portfolio.

You will own architecture across teams, drive integration of AI tooling, and ensure security, observability, and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives to production.
• Deep proficiency in backend API design and microservices.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and security controls.
• Familiarity with agentic AI systems and LLM orchestration concepts.

Responsibilities

• Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap across squads.
• Lead platform-excellence workstreams to improve reliability and observability.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-experience and AI tooling.
• Provide staff-level architectural coverage across multiple squads.
• Build secure, scalable backend services with full SLO ownership.

Skills

AI platform architecture

Backend service design

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Security and compliance

Cloud-native development

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead AI maturity and developer-experience initiatives across CX squads. You will architect reliable distributed services and guide platform excellence to raise engineering quality across the portfolio.

You will own architecture across teams, drive integration of AI tooling, and ensure security, observability, and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.