Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Operations Platform

Coinbase; Jackson (MS); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in the Enterprise Applications and Architecture org to lead Control Center’s evolution into a modular, AI-agent-ready operations platform. You will own architectural decisions, drive MCP constructs, and mentor engineers across multi-team projects.

You will build secure, scalable backend services, define SLOs, and ensure operational readiness for thousands of internal users and AI agents, while aligning with security governance and data integrity goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with backend service design, API development (gRPC, MCP, GraphQL), and scalable microservices architectures.
• Cloud-native infrastructure including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and delivery of foundational platform capabilities including MCP tool registries, AI orchestration layers, risk-based access automation, and the away-team contribution model that enables product groups to build on Control Center safely and at speed.
• Drive Control Center's evolution into an AI-agent-ready, headless operations platform by designing MCP procedure constructs, agentic guardrails, HITL orchestration, and evaluation frameworks for secure autonomous operations.
• Lead technical direction across the team in partnership with the Engineering Manager and Product, authoring TDDs, running design reviews, decomposing complex initiatives into deliverable milestones, and mentoring engineers through code review.
• Build highly reliable, secure distributed backend services, owning SLO definitions, observability instrumentation, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems serving thousands of internal users and AI agents.
• Partner across EAA, Product Engineering, and Security Engineering teams to deliver cross-functional outcomes and drive shared platform primitives that eliminate duplicated infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend API design

Go

Python

Security & governance

Cloud platforms

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in the Enterprise Applications and Architecture org to lead Control Center’s evolution into a modular, AI-agent-ready operations platform. You will own architectural decisions, drive MCP constructs, and mentor engineers across multi-team projects.

You will build secure, scalable backend services, define SLOs, and ensure operational readiness for thousands of internal users and AI agents, while aligning with security governance and data integrity goals.