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Design and build reliable backend services for Coinbase's Agent Verification team in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 week ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
The candidate should know how to use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer for Agent Verification at Coinbase focuses on designing and building backend services that enhance the software shipping process in a secure and efficient manner. Key skills include expertise in Go, distributed systems, and CI/CD integrations, along with a strong understanding of security and authorization principles. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a background in developer infrastructure and a proven track record of leading cross-team projects. Coinbase emphasizes a high-performance culture, pushing its team to innovate and excel in a collaborative environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page October 21, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 63% of 120 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $173,958 across 54 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 32% of 519 comparable senior backend roles in United States; GitHub appears in 0.2% of 519 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $186,065–$218,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI-assisted development, AWS, GitHub, Go, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification 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.
Agent Verification builds systems that help Coinbase safely ship software in an AI-native development environment. The team develops automated code review, risk and policy evaluation, CI evidence, and merge controls that reduce routine manual work while preserving human judgment for higher-risk changes.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build reliable backend services and integrations across source control, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows. You will lead the adoption of a consistent and observable merge path, partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams, and improve how software changes are reviewed and shipped across Coinbase.
We are looking for an experienced backend or platform engineer who has built distributed systems, developer infrastructure, CI/CD integrations, authorization or policy systems, or other high-reliability control planes. Experience with Go, GitHub integrations, AWS, Kubernetes, AI-assisted development, or policy-as-code is helpful.
What you'll do:
- Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate, the system that determines whether a change can merge and explains what remains before it can proceed.
- Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity and attestation evidence, and required human judgment into one merge decision.
- Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI and other Coinbase’s policy systems.
- Migrate repositories from fragmented legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate, with safe rollouts, observable decisions, and clear rollback paths.
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows.
- Measure the effect on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years experience
- Strong backend and distributed-systems experience in Go or a comparable language.
- Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms.
- Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane.
- Strong security and authorization judgment. The engineer must understand why a technically convenient path may weaken a production gate.
- Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and operational ownership.
- Hands-on AI fluency. The candidate should know how to use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows rather than discuss them only at a conceptual level.
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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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