Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 12+ years
Benefits
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 53 other open roles including Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments , Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk).
- 1675 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 191 active Golang roles on Joblaze right now.
- 13 active Agentic AI roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$166,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core Automation role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $253,895–$298,700 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 12 years of relevant experience for this Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core Automation 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: Golang, AI/ML, Agentic AI.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core Automation 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.
The Core Automation team envisions a future where AI-powered operations lead to seamless, delightful experiences for customers and maximum value for shareholders. Towards this vision, our strategy is to 1) start with automating two key areas with Agentic AI: Customer Support and Compliance, 2) incorporate learnings from this automation experience and build primitives and orchestration solutions that allow us to scale and 3) scale across a variety of domains enabling AI to enhance every part of customer experience and internal processes.
It’s day 1 for us. We’re laser focused on automating customer support and compliance processes today. This is not just focused on driving efficiencies by automating manual processes, but reimagining what processes and systems must look like in a fully AI driven automated world, and then bring that vision to reality working across cross functional teams to offer a delightful customer experience, improving compliance posture and delivering outsized shareholder value.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Design and implement Agentic AI systems that power Coinbase’s customer support experience and compliance processes
- Design a platform (primitives, orchestration platform, tools, etc.) that would allow other domains to quickly leverage Agentic AI to automate their processes
- Interact with stakeholders in many different organizations that build Coinbase products or are responsible for financial operations
- Participate in shaping of the strategy and execution path of Coinbase Platform
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- 12 + years of experience in backend software engineering using Golang or similar languages
- Experience getting LLM based application to production
- Proven track record of delivering impactful solutions that power significant customer flows and processes
- You’ve experience in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- Strong technical knowledge of building distributed systems that process massive scale
- Solid communication skills and ability to communicate to stakeholders with various technical and non-technical backgrounds
- Relentless drive to set and perseverance to achieve ambitious goals
- Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality."
Nice to haves:
- Experience with LLM and Agentic AI. Measuring and improving LLMs’ grounding to a given corpus and experience reducing hallucinations is a big plus.
- Experience in the customer support, compliance or financial crimes domains
- Experience having made build/buy decisions
Job #: P72990
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