Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform & Scale

Coinbase, Inc.

Lansing (MI)

Hybrid

USD 218,000 - 257,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor across eight globally distributed EAA-CX squads, identifying high-leverage AI and developer-experience opportunities, and driving architecture on Coinbase's production AI infrastructure. You will lead platform excellence initiatives, improving reliability and observability while coordinating across teams to maintain portfolio-wide coherence.

As a Staff engineer, you’ll own the AI tooling strategy, balance build-vs-buy decisions, and ensure

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
Strong backend service design and API development experience.
Experience with cloud-native infra (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD.
Knowledge of security controls, access management, and data governance.
Experience with agentic AI systems and AI tooling in production.

Responsibilities

Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap across squads.
Lead platform excellence workstreams to improve reliability, observability, and resilience.
Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer experience and AI tooling.
Provide Staff-level architectural coverage across multiple squads and maintain portfolio coherence.
Build secure, scalable distributed backend services with full SLO ownership and incident readiness.