Join Coinbase as a Senior Staff Software Engineer to architect and build AI-driven legal automation systems.
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Requirements
- Experience
- 12+ years
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 14 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 163 other open roles including Strategic Program Lead, Supervisor, Customer Success Team, Staff Applied Data Scientist, Pricing.
- 1835 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 41 active Backend roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$194,500).
- Pays more than 73% of the 1064 salaried AI/ML roles we track (median $190,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal 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, Legal 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: 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 Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal 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.
Coinbase's Legal organization manages corporate governance across 60+ global subsidiaries, public company reporting, institutional client agreements, and product counsel for every product group. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal Automation, you'll join this team to architect and deliver the AI-native platform that transforms high-volume legal workflows into scalable, automated systems. You'll embed directly with Legal leadership, prototype the highest-leverage opportunities, and ship production-grade AI agents that set the standard for how non-technical orgs at Coinbase operate with AI.
What You'll Do:
- Embed with Legal leadership to develop ground-level understanding of workflows, join planning sessions, and identify the automation opportunities with the greatest business impact.
- Architect and deliver production-grade AI systems with built-in auditability, observability, human-in-the-loop design, and guardrails from day one.
- Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of Legal and CCO, translating complex legal workflows into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to legal stakeholders.
- Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, integrate from partner teams, or retire.
- Serve as the technical thought partner to Legal leadership, surfacing engineering risk early and keeping legal and engineering teams aligned on priorities and tradeoffs.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 12+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems at scale in ambiguous, greenfield environments.
- Proven experience deploying LLM-based applications to production, including evaluation frameworks, grounding, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design.
- Multi-agent orchestration experience designing and operating systems where multiple AI agents collaborate, hand off work, and escalate to humans appropriately.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn from non-technical domain experts, internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements and reusable platform primitives.
- Distributed systems fundamentals including document processing, routing logic, structured evaluation, and audit trails.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job ID: P77646
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