Join Coinbase as a Senior Staff Software Engineer to architect and build AI-driven legal automation systems.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
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Requirements
- Experience
- 12+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect and develop a platform for automating high-volume legal workflows, focusing on institutional client agreements and governance processes. Key skills include extensive backend engineering experience, particularly with LLM-based applications and multi-agent systems, as well as the ability to communicate effectively with legal professionals. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers who thrive in dynamic environments and are eager to drive innovation in legal technology. Coinbase's Legal team is at a pivotal moment, aiming to redefine how legal work is executed at scale.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 2 months ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 233 other open roles including Operational Excellence Senior Program Lead, Derivative Sales Analyst, Senior Strategic Program Lead.
- 5186 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 121 active Backend roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$188,000).
- Pays more than 82% of the 2252 salaried AI/ML roles we track (median $180,000). See AI/ML salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Forward Deployed Engineer, Legal [Office of the CTO] 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 Forward Deployed Engineer, Legal [Office of the CTO] 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/ML, Backend.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Forward Deployed Engineer, Legal [Office of the CTO] 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.
Coinbase's Legal organization manages corporate governance across 60+ global subsidiaries, public company reporting, institutional client agreements, and product counsel for every product group. This role sits directly inside the Office of the CTO, embedded as a founding engineer within Legal. You'll identify high-value workflow opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform, and drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the Legal org. You'll be the connective tissue between Legal stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one.
What you'll do:
- Embed with Legal leadership to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like contract review, regulatory filing drafts, and subsidiary governance.
- Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
- Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of Legal and CCO, translating complex legal workflows — entity management, litigation tracking, product counsel reviews, compliance reporting — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
- Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
- Ensure every automated legal output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible — with privilege boundaries, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.
- Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Legal teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience a strong plus.
- Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes legal outputs.
- Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
- Familiarity with legal and compliance systems concepts: contract lifecycle management, regulatory filing workflows, entity governance, and privilege-sensitive data handling
- Does not need to be an attorney, but should be open to learning.
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
- Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in legal-tech, compliance-tech, or RegTech environments.
- 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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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