Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Operations Platform (Remote-First)

Coinbase

United States

Remote

USD 89,000 - 109,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Customer Administration to lead architectural decisions and deliver critical platform capabilities. You will mentor engineers and drive cross-functional initiatives across CX, Compliance, Legal, and Security teams while advancing Control Center from a human-focused UI to a modular AI-agent-ready operations platform.

You will own MCP-related infrastructure, agent orchestration, and secure data operations, partnering with Engineering Managers and

Qualifications

8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in production systems.
Experience leading large, cross-team initiatives and writing high-quality code.
Strong cloud-native backend stack, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD.

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver foundational platform capabilities for Control Center and MCP integration.
Evolve Control Center into AI-agent-ready platform with guardrails and HITL workflows.
Define architectural roadmaps, review designs, and mentor engineers across teams.
Build and maintain highly reliable, secure distributed backend services with SLOs.
Collaborate with CAE, Product, and Security teams to deliver platform primitives.