Staff Software Engineer — AI Platform & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor AI maturity and developer-experience across eight globally distributed squads within the Customer Experience group of Enterprise Applications and Architecture.

You’ll drive platform excellence, define build-versus-buy strategies for AI tooling, and ensure secure, observable production systems with full SLO ownership. You will lead architectural discussions, prototype on Coinbase’s AI platform, and mentor teams to raise Tier-1

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership, embedding with squads to surface opportunities, prototyping on Coinbase's existing AI platform, and driving adoption through working demos and feedback loops.
• Lead platform excellence workstreams that improve reliability, observability, change-failure rate, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-experience and AI tooling across EAA-CX, evaluating what to build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
• Provide Staff-level architectural coverage across squads facing complex challenges, ramping in to land architecture or delivery and ramping off while maintaining portfolio-wide coherence.
• Build highly reliable, secure distributed backend services with full SLO ownership, observability, and incident response, ensuring automated outputs and production changes are traceable, reviewable, and safe in a regulated environment.

Skills

Backend design

API development

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

GraphQL

Security & governance

Agentic AI integration

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor AI maturity and developer-experience across eight globally distributed squads within the Customer Experience group of Enterprise Applications and Architecture.

You’ll drive platform excellence, define build-versus-buy strategies for AI tooling, and ensure secure, observable production systems with full SLO ownership. You will lead architectural discussions, prototype on Coinbase’s AI platform, and mentor teams to raise Tier-1