Role in brief
Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Platform Team to develop AI solutions for finance. Ideal candidates have strong skills in AI and platform engineering and are comfortable in a high-intensity environment.
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About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform Team at Coinbase, you will focus on building critical AI infrastructure and solutions. Your work will involve managing APIs, AI agents, and knowledge bases that support various teams across the company.
Coinbase operates in a remote-first model, emphasizing collaboration through quarterly in-person sessions. This role demands a proactive approach to high-impact initiatives, requiring partnerships across multiple departments to ensure successful project outcomes.
The salary for this position ranges from $98,000 to $162,000, reflecting the competitive nature of the role.
Skills that matter here
- AI: This role involves developing AI solutions and infrastructure.
- Software Development: You will apply software development practices to create robust AI applications.
- Platform Engineering: The role focuses on building and maintaining platform infrastructure for AI.
Who this role suits
- You thrive in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and are driven to push your limits.
- You have a collaborative mindset, eager to partner with diverse teams across the organization.
- You possess strong communication skills, capable of sharing insights through presentations and publications.
From the employer
What you’ll be doing:
- LLM Gateway: one API for 60+ models across all major providers, including self-hosted open weight models, with auth, PII redaction, quotas, fallbacks, and cost optimization.
- AI Hub: single front door for agents, skills, MCP servers, knowledge bases, models, memories, and keys.
- Agent and MCP runtime: microVM sandboxes per agent run, a governed MCP gateway over 125+ servers, cross trust agent identity, tier 1 agents for code, analytics, and exec personas.
- Knowledge Bases: connect any data source, auto provision vector and markdown stores, queryable by any agent over MCP.
- AI Spend Hub: FinOps for AI, spend attribution and governance across the company.
- Evaluation and observability: in-house LLM as judge harness with full tracing and eval tooling.
- Company wide chat and low code workflow surfaces, thousands of weekly actives each.
- Applied AI: we embed with teams to build production agents, build the feedback loops that let subject matter experts refine them, and apply traditional ML including fine tuning where it beats prompting.
What we look for in you:
- Own multi quarter, high impact initiatives on the platform (gateway, runtime, knowledge, governance) or the applied agents on top.
- Partner across engineering, security, legal, finance, and product, and work directly with our partners at the frontier labs and major cloud providers.
- Public blog posts and talks showcasing the team's work.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary ranging from $98K to $162K.
- Remote work flexibility with quarterly in-person sessions.
- Equal Opportunity Employer status.
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person sessions.
What level of experience is required?
This position is for senior-level candidates.
How do I apply?
You can apply through the Coinbase careers website.
✓ Direct apply: you message the hiring person by email. No ATS.