Staff Software Engineer: AI Automation & Distributed Systems

Coinbase; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building Agentic AI systems to reimagine customer support and compliance. You will own the technical direction for production AI systems, architecting distributed components and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver scalable automation with guardrails.

The role emphasizes designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks, and mentoring engineers on best practices for LLM-based applications in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience architecting distributed systems.
• Experience shipping production AI/ML applications.
• Experience with LLM-based applications, grounding, and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems for compliance automation and operations.
• Design APIs and measurement frameworks for reliable AI agents.
• Lead architectural direction for distributed systems underpinning AI automation.
• Build primitives and orchestration solutions to scale AI across domains.
• Mentor engineers on AI system design and production-readiness.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI/ML production

LLM applications

API design

Orchestration

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Coinbase is building Agentic AI systems to reimagine customer support and compliance. You will own the technical direction for production AI systems, architecting distributed components and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver scalable automation with guardrails.

The role emphasizes designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks, and mentoring engineers on best practices for LLM-based applications in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.