Staff Software Engineer — AI Platform & Systems Lead

Coinbase, Inc.; Oklahoma City (OK); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor AI maturity across CX platforms. You’ll guide developer experience, drive reliability, and own architectural direction for Tier-1 systems used by thousands of specialists.

Lead across distributed squads, balance build vs. buy for tooling, and ensure secure, scalable backend services with strong observability in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with large-scale systems.
• Experience with backend service design and API development.
• Security, audit logging, and data governance exposure.
• Proficiency in Go and willingness to work with Python.
• Cloud-native infra including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Own AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap for EAA-CX.
• Lead platform-excellence workstreams for reliability and observability.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for AI tooling and DX.
• Provide architectural coverage across squads on complex problems.
• Build secure, distributed backend services with SLO ownership.

Skills

Backend service design

API development

Go

Python

Cloud-native infra

AWS

Kubernetes

Security controls

Tools

Grpc

GraphQL

Terraform

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor AI maturity across CX platforms. You’ll guide developer experience, drive reliability, and own architectural direction for Tier-1 systems used by thousands of specialists.

Lead across distributed squads, balance build vs. buy for tooling, and ensure secure, scalable backend services with strong observability in a regulated environment.