Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation)
Summary
Coinbase is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build agentic AI systems powering customer support and compliance automation — LLM orchestration, guardrails, and scalable Python/Golang backend infrastructure from design through production monitoring. Remote within the USA.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation)
Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation) (Remote - USA). This is an AI / ML role listed on the official Coinbase careers site.
About this role
Remote AI / ML
Key Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems that power customer support and compliance automation, from LLM orchestration through production deployment and monitoring.
- Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Golang for AI workloads, including model integration pipelines, guardrails, grounding, and measurement frameworks.
- Drive end-to-end execution on complex AI initiatives, making trade-offs across latency, accuracy, cost, and reliability.
- Partner with Customer Experience, Compliance, and product engineering teams to identify high-impact automation opportunities.
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers on AI system design patterns, and contribute to on-call and incident response.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production microservices.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications or AI/ML systems in production, including prompt engineering, RAG, or agentic AI frameworks.
- Proficiency in Python and Golang (or comparable backend languages), integrating third-party AI models and APIs.
- Track record of delivering end-to-end projects with measurable business impact in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Experience with data pipelines, external vendor integrations, or large-scale unstructured data.
Salary: $186,065–$218,900 per year
Job Type: Remote
