Coinbase
Staff Software Engineer
$218K–$256K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 8, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Provides technical leadership across distributed engineering squads, advancing AI and developer experience while improving the reliability and security of internal Tier-1 platforms.
What you'll do
- Own the AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap, prototype solutions on Coinbase’s AI platform, and drive adoption across squads.
- Lead platform excellence work to improve reliability, observability, change-failure rate, and operational readiness.
- Provide architectural leadership and build secure, reliable distributed backend services with SLO ownership, observability, and incident response.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven ability to lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives across teams and deliver high-quality, well-tested code.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, event-driven architectures, caching, and SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Experience building or integrating agentic AI systems; proficiency in Go and willingness to work across Python.
Pay
$218,025 — $256,500 USD annual base salary (excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
gRPC, MCP, GraphQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Go
AI focus
Own AI maturity and developer-experience initiatives; prototype on Coinbase’s AI platform and build or integrate agentic AI systems, including MCP servers, LLM orchestration, RAG, HITL workflows, evaluation, and guardrails. Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight.
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