Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform & Scale (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to act as a technical anchor across eight globally distributed squads within the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group.

You will lead AI maturity initiatives, architect scalable backend services, and drive platform excellence for Tier-1 systems, while owning SLOs and incident response in a regulated environment. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to surface opportunities, prototype on Coinbase's AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience including architecting and delivering large-scale 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, 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

8+ years experience

Backend service design

API development (gRPC)

GraphQL

MCP servers

LLM orchestration

Go

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Tools

Go

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to act as a technical anchor across eight globally distributed squads within the Enterprise Applications and Architecture group.

You will lead AI maturity initiatives, architect scalable backend services, and drive platform excellence for Tier-1 systems, while owning SLOs and incident response in a regulated environment. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to surface opportunities, prototype on Coinbase's AI