Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform in USA new

Coinbase
Full time
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USA
10/03/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Design and deliver agentic AI systems for customer support and compliance automation from LLM orchestration through production deployment and monitoring.
Build scalable backend infrastructure in Python and Golang, including model integration pipelines, guardrails, grounding mechanisms, and measurement frameworks.
Drive end-to-end execution of complex AI initiatives while balancing latency, accuracy, cost, and reliability.
Partner with Customer Experience, Compliance, and product engineering teams to identify automation opportunities and translate operational needs into AI solutions.
Lead code reviews, mentor engineers on AI system design, and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services using microservices architecture.
Production experience building LLM-based applications or AI/ML systems, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic AI frameworks.
Proficiency in Python and Golang or comparable backend languages, with experience integrating third-party AI models and APIs into production workflows.
Experience delivering end-to-end projects with measurable business impact in ambiguous problem spaces.
Experience building data pipelines, integrating external vendors, or working with large-scale unstructured data sources.
Ability to use generative AI responsibly with appropriate human oversight.
Preferred experience with rapid company growth, GenAI frameworks and tools, Docker, Postgres, MongoDB, and AI/LLM infrastructure.

Benefits

Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
Applicants may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.

Salary: $186k - $219k/yr

Coinbase

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more...

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