Staff Software Engineer: AI Platform & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to anchor AI maturity and developer experience across eight EAA-CX squads. You’ll architect scalable backend services, drive platform excellence, and own SLOs in a regulated environment.

You’ll work with AWS, Kubernetes, and modern data pipelines, balancing build-vs-buy decisions and ensuring secure, observable systems. This role blends leadership with hands-on delivery across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to lead ambiguous technical initiatives from whiteboard to production.
• Strong cloud-native experience: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD.
• Experience with security controls, data governance in regulated env.
• Experience with agentic AI systems including MCP servers, LLM orchestration, RAG, HITL, with Go and Python.

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, partnering with engineering managers to ensure practices persist on the teams.
• 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

Distributed systems

Backend design

API design

Go

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security & compliance

AI systems

Tools

MCP servers

GraphQL

gRPC

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to anchor AI maturity and developer experience across eight EAA-CX squads. You’ll architect scalable backend services, drive platform excellence, and own SLOs in a regulated environment.

You’ll work with AWS, Kubernetes, and modern data pipelines, balancing build-vs-buy decisions and ensuring secure, observable systems. This role blends leadership with hands-on delivery across distributed teams.