Build foundational ML infrastructure for fraud detection and user personalization at a remote-first company.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure
- Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines
- Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure
- Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality
- Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software
Must have
- 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
- Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure
- Track record of mentoring engineers
- Familiarity with ML platform components
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer at Coinbase, the individual will focus on developing and maintaining the infrastructure that supports machine learning applications, including fraud detection and user personalization. Key skills include experience with low-latency data processing, distributed systems, and mentoring junior engineers. This position is suited for seasoned professionals with a strong background in software engineering and a track record of enhancing engineering practices. The team operates in a high-performance environment, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 18, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page September 20, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$188,000).
- Starts above 48% of 65 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list Machine Learning we track (median $200,000 across 32 companies). See Machine Learning salary trends
- Machine Learning appears in 18.5% of 536 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer(Platform - Identity) role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $191,250–$225,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer(Platform - Identity) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Machine Learning, distributed training, inference services, stream processing.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer(Platform - Identity) role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer
As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team within the Platform group, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across Coinbase. The platform you build supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis. You'll own critical systems spanning stream processing, distributed training, and highly available inference services, directly shaping how ML scales across the company.
What you'll do:
- Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
- Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
- Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
- Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
- Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
- Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
- Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
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