Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation)

Coinbase is a company focused on increasing economic freedom and building the future of finance. The Staff Software Engineer will architect and build Agentic AI systems for compliance automation and operations, lead the technical direction of distributed AI systems, and develop scalable orchestration frameworks, APIs, and measurement systems. The role also includes mentoring engineers on AI system design and production-readiness practices.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems that power Coinbase's compliance automation and other Operations, from intelligent agents through orchestration and guardrails
• Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks that ensure AI agents are grounded, relevant, and reliably deliver customer delight with minimal hallucination
• Lead technical direction for distributed systems underpinning AI automation, defining architecture patterns and strategic roadmaps in partnership with engineering leadership
• Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions that enable AI-powered automation to scale across multiple domains beyond the initial customer support and compliance focus
• Mentor engineers on AI system design techniques, coding standards, and production-readiness practices for LLM-based applications

Requirements:

• 8+ years in software engineering with demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems and shipping production AI/ML applications
• Experience working with LLM-based applications, familiarity with - measuring and improving grounding, reducing hallucinations, and building guardrails for reliability
• Deep expertise designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for agentic AI systems at scale