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Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Identity

RemoteRemoteFull TimeSenior$191,250–$225,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • ML Platform
  • feature engineering
  • model training
  • model serving
  • fraud detection
  • user personalization
  • blockchain analysis
  • stream processing
  • distributed training
  • inference services

Nice to have

  • Platform - Identity

Role summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build and maintain the core infrastructure for ML operations, including feature engineering, model training, and serving. This role involves owning critical systems for stream processing, distributed training, and inference services, supporting areas like fraud detection and personalization. The engineer will focus on reliability, low latency, and scalability, mentor junior team members, and ensure responsible use of generative AI. A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience with distributed systems and ML infrastructure is required.

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.

As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team within the Platform group, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across Coinbase. The platform you build supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis. You'll own critical systems spanning stream processing, distributed training, and highly available inference services, directly shaping how ML scales across the company.

What You'll Do:

  • Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
  • Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
  • Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
  • Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
  • Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.
  • Required Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
  • Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
  • Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
  • 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)).

    Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):$191,250—$225,000 USD
  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month 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.
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  • 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.
  • Sample Coinbase interview questions

    • 1

      Design a Crypto Exchange

      system designmedium
    • 2

      Design a cryptocurrency dashboard using LLMs.

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    • 3

      Design a system for managing a distributed message broker.

      system designmedium
    • 4

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

      system designmedium
    • 5

      How would you manage a large number of users in the database to ensure scalability?

      system designaverage

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