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Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform Team

United StatesFull TimeSeniorPosted 4 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

The AI Platform team at Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate the core LLM and agent infrastructure. This role involves owning multi-quarter initiatives for the platform (gateway, runtime, knowledge, governance) or applied agents. Responsibilities include developing an LLM Gateway supporting numerous models, an AI Hub for agents and skills, and agent runtimes. The role also focuses on AI FinOps, knowledge base integration, and evaluation/observability tooling. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners is key. The ideal candidate will have experience with LLMs, agent development, cloud infrastructure, API design, FinOps, and observability. Public speaking and blogging about AI advancements are encouraged.

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.

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
  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 4 applications per 30-day period.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
  • US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
  • Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial.
  • Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.
  • AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.

    • Sample Coinbase interview questions

    • 1

      Design a cryptocurrency dashboard using LLMs.

      system designaverage
    • 2

      LLD: Design a wallet with multiple currency support.

      system designdifficult
    • 3

      Design a system for managing a social network's newsfeed.

      system designmedium
    • 4

      Design a Crypto Exchange

      system designmedium
    • 5

      Implement a 4-stage progressive file system with an in-memory distributed database (DDB) with Time-To-Live (TTL) functionality, emphasizing Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for refactoring.

      codingvery_difficult

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