# Senior Engineering Manager, Core Automation

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $254k – $299k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic AI, AI/ML, Cloud Technology, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, System Architecture, Llm Applications, Incident Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads engineering teams building AI-powered compliance automation, scalable cloud services, and distributed systems. The role requires extensive software engineering and management experience, including managing managers, with hands-on technical leadership and a focus on productionizing LLM applications.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Apply advanced **Generative AI**, including **large language models (LLMs)** and **Agentic AI**, to solve complex organizational challenges.
- Partner with and influence Operations and Compliance organizations.
- Build and manage engineering teams in the Compliance domain, guiding development of features, services, and infrastructure.
- Plan, design, develop, and test software systems and applications, including cloud-based and internet-related tools.
- Design scalable systems using modern cloud technology and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to create quarterly product and technical roadmaps.
- Coach team members on design principles, coding standards, and AI productivity tool adoption.
- Review security, scalability, and architectural integrity across feature designs.
- Hire, train, and grow high-performing teams focused on AI/ML solutions.
- Lead multiple engineering initiatives while maintaining high service quality.
- Establish processes that improve engineering quality, AI adoption, and delivery impact.
- Guide architectural decisions and foster high-quality code and engineering practices.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to deliver and operate multi-tenant, distributed systems at scale.

## Requirements
- At least **10 years of software engineering experience**.
- At least **5 years of engineering management experience**.
- At least **2 years of experience managing managers**.
- Strong understanding of high-quality code and software engineering processes.
- Execution-focused with the ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Ability to balance long-term thinking with short-term planning.
- Experience creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenant, distributed systems at scale.
- Willingness to remain hands-on when needed, including writing or reviewing code and technical documents, participating in on-call rotations, leading incidents, and troubleshooting bugs.
- Passion for building an open financial system.

## Nice to Have
- Experience bringing **LLM-based applications** to production.
- Experience measuring and improving LLM grounding against a corpus and reducing hallucinations.
- Experience in Customer Support Compliance or Financial Crimes domains.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary range, excluding equity and bonus: **$253,895–$298,700 USD**.
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

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