Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform Team

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in AI platform and infrastructure management
  • Strong understanding of multi-cloud environments and generative AI technologies
  • Proven ability to lead high-impact initiatives and cross-functional collaborations
  • Experience with LLM gateways and agent lifecycle management
  • Familiarity with FinOps practices in AI governance

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a unified API that integrates over 60 AI models from multiple cloud providers
  • Establish a central hub for AI agents, skills, and knowledge management
  • Develop and oversee runtime environments for AI agents using microVM sandboxes
  • Connect diverse data sources to create robust knowledge bases for agents
  • Govern AI spending, ensuring accountability and transparency across the organization
  • Implement evaluation tools for LLM performance and agent improvement
  • Collaborate with teams to develop applied AI solutions with continuous feedback loops

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge generative AI technologies
  • Access to a collaborative environment with leading AI and cloud partners
  • Involvement in high-impact projects that shape the future of AI at Coinbase
  • Exposure to multi-disciplinary collaboration across various fields
  • Flexible application process with a limit that encourages focused applications
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 do:
  • 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
  • Utilizes and builds generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Required Skills and Experience:
  • 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

Job ID#: P76979

  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

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