Staff Software Engineer: AI Platforms & Secure Backend

Coinbase, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in a remote-first, hybrid-ready environment to strengthen the Customer Experience engineering portfolio. You will anchor architecture across eight CX squads, enhancing AI tooling, reliability, and developer experience for Tier-1 systems.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable backend services and production readiness in a regulated financial context. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to surface opportunities, prototype on our AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Cloud-native infra with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, event-driven architectures.
• Secure, compliant internal tools or platforms with strong data governance.
• Experience with agentic AI systems including MCP servers, LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, HITL or guardrails.
• Proficient in Go and Python; ability to work across languages and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap for EAA-CX.
• Lead platform-excellence workstreams to improve reliability and observability.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-tools and AI tooling.
• Provide staff-level architectural coverage across squads for complex challenges.
• Build reliable, secure distributed backend services with full SLO ownership and incident readiness.

Skills

Backend design

API development

Cloud-native infra

Security controls

AI systems integration

Go

Python

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in a remote-first, hybrid-ready environment to strengthen the Customer Experience engineering portfolio. You will anchor architecture across eight CX squads, enhancing AI tooling, reliability, and developer experience for Tier-1 systems.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable backend services and production readiness in a regulated financial context. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to surface opportunities, prototype on our AI