# Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $218k – $257k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, LLMs, APIs, Orchestration, Guardrails, Evaluation Frameworks, Grounding, Hallucination Reduction, Production Systems, Python
**Posted:** 2026-08-24

> Leads the architecture and development of production agentic AI systems, distributed infrastructure, APIs, orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks for scalable automation. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience and demonstrated expertise shipping AI/ML applications and reliable LLM-based systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and build agentic AI systems for compliance automation and other operations, including intelligent agents, orchestration, and guardrails.
- Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks to ensure AI agents are grounded, relevant, and reliable.
- Lead technical direction for distributed systems underpinning AI automation, including architecture patterns and strategic roadmaps.
- Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions that scale AI-powered automation across multiple domains.
- Mentor engineers on AI system design, coding standards, and production-readiness practices for LLM-based applications.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience architecting distributed systems and shipping production AI/ML applications.
- Experience with LLM-based applications, including measuring and improving grounding, reducing hallucinations, and building reliability guardrails.
- Deep expertise designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for agentic AI systems at scale.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base salary: $218,025–$256,500 USD, excluding equity and bonus.
- Equity and bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).

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