Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform Team

Coinbase$130K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in AI infrastructure or backend development
  • Proven track record managing complex, multi-quarter technology projects
  • Strong skills in collaboration across cross-functional teams (engineering, security, legal)
  • Experience with large-scale AI models and their deployment
  • Familiarity with cloud service providers and platform governance

Responsibilities

  • Develop a unified API for 60+ AI models, ensuring optimized performance and usability
  • Create an integrated AI Hub for agent deployment and management
  • Implement runtime environments for safe execution of agents across multiple servers
  • Establish knowledge bases for seamless data source integration and query capabilities
  • Oversee AI spending analytics to ensure financial efficiency and compliance
  • Deploy evaluation frameworks for continuous model performance monitoring
  • Collaborate closely with teams to enhance agent functionality through iterative feedback

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Access to cutting-edge AI technologies and frameworks
  • Work in a fast-paced, innovative environment
  • Engagement with industry-leading partners and cloud service providers
  • Visibility and influence in high-impact projects within the organization
Full Job Description
AI Platform builds and operates the LLM and agent infrastructure every team at Coinbase builds on, and ships high impact AI agents on top of it. We are the company's single path to LLMs and the substrate for the full agent lifecycle: build, deploy, run, observe, improve. **What you'll be doing (ie. job duties):** - LLM Gateway: one API for 60+ models across all major providers, including self hosted open weight models, with auth, PII redaction, quotas, fallbacks, and cost optimization - AI Hub: single front door for agents, skills, MCP servers, knowledge bases, models, memories, and keys - Agent and MCP runtime: microVM sandboxes per agent run, a governed MCP gateway over 125+ servers, cross trust agent identity, tier 1 agents for code, analytics, and exec personas - Knowledge Bases: connect any data source, auto provision vector and markdown stores, queryable by any agent over MCP - AI Spend Hub: FinOps for AI, spend attribution and governance across the company - Evaluation and observability: in house LLM as judge harness with full tracing and eval tooling - Company wide chat and low code workflow surfaces, thousands of weekly actives each - Applied AI: we embed with teams to build production agents, build the feedback loops that let subject matter experts refine them, and apply traditional ML including fine tuning where it beats prompting **What we look for in you:** Own multi quarter, high impact initiatives on the platform (gateway, runtime, knowledge, governance) or the applied agents on top. Partner across engineering, security, legal, finance, and product, and work directly with our partners at the frontier labs and major cloud providers. Public blog posts and talks showcasing the team's work: - NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades - Making Smarter Decisions, Faster with AI at Coinbase - CB-GPT - The opportunity and the vision for GenAI at Coinbase - Lessons from launching Enterprise-grade GenAI solutions at Coinbase - AWS re:Invent 2025 - Scaling support, compliance, & productivity with conversational AI at Coinbase Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a digital currency exchange that allows users to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The company was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Coinbase has over 56 million verified users in over 100 countries and has facilitated over $335 billion in trades. Coinbase offers a variety of services, including a cryptocurrency wallet, a trading platform, and an API for developers. Coinbase is known for its user-friendly interface and high level of security. Coinbase has raised over $547 million in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, and the New York Stock Exchange.
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1,200 employees
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Founded
2012

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