Staff Software Engineer: AI Platform & Platform Excellence

Coinbase, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer within the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group. You will anchor 8 engineering squads, drive AI maturity and developer-experience, and shape architecture across a global portfolio. Expect high-impact, secure backend work on Tier-1 systems.

You’ll lead build-versus-buy decisions for AI tooling, ensure reliability, and work across Python and Go in a regulated, production AI environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Deep proficiency in backend service design and API development.

Responsibilities

• Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap with engineering leadership.
• Lead platform excellence workstreams to improve reliability and observability for Tier-1 systems.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-experience and AI tooling.
• Provide Staff-level architectural coverage across squads and ensure portfolio coherence.
• Build highly reliable, secure distributed backend services with full SLO ownership.

Skills

Backend service design

API development (gRPC, MCP, GraphQL)

Distributed microservices

Go / Python

Cloud-native infrastructure

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Kafka / MQ

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Kafka

GraphQL

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer within the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group. You will anchor 8 engineering squads, drive AI maturity and developer-experience, and shape architecture across a global portfolio. Expect high-impact, secure backend work on Tier-1 systems.

You’ll lead build-versus-buy decisions for AI tooling, ensure reliability, and work across Python and Go in a regulated, production AI environment.