Staff Software Architect - AI Platform & Scale

Coinbase; Dover (DE); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group. You will anchor 8 globally distributed squads, drive AI maturity and developer experience, and architect solutions on our production AI infrastructure while maintaining portfolio-wide coherence.

You will own platform excellence for Tier-1 systems, define build-versus-buy strategies for AI tooling, build reliable backend services with full SLO ownership, and ensure security and governance in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Backend service design, API development (gRPC, MCP, GraphQL) proficiency.
• Cloud-native infra with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform; CI/CD; Kafka/MQ; SQL/NoSQL.
• Security controls, data governance in regulated environments.
• Experience with agentic AI systems; Go and Python experience.
• Responsible AI with human oversight; drive measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap across squads.
• Lead platform-excellence workstreams for reliability and observability.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for AI tooling across EAA-CX.
• ProvideStaff-level architectural coverage across multiple squads.
• Build reliable, secure distributed backends with SLO ownership and incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Leadership of technical initiatives

Go and Python proficiency

Generative AI responsibly use

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group. You will anchor 8 globally distributed squads, drive AI maturity and developer experience, and architect solutions on our production AI infrastructure while maintaining portfolio-wide coherence.

You will own platform excellence for Tier-1 systems, define build-versus-buy strategies for AI tooling, build reliable backend services with full SLO ownership, and ensure security and governance in a