About this role
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 .
Staff Software Engineer (EAA)
The Customer Experience (EAA-CX) sub-organization within Coinbase's Enterprise Applications and Architecture (EAA) group builds and operates the secure, Tier-1 platforms that power internal investigative and support workflows for approximately 7,000 specialists across CX, Compliance, Legal, Global Investigations, and Trust and Risk. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll operate as a technical anchor across 8 globally distributed EAA-CX engineering squads, identifying high-leverage AI and developer-experience opportunities, architecting solutions on Coinbase's production AI infrastructure, and driving platform excellence that raises Tier-1 engineering quality across the portfolio.
What you'll do:
• Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership, embedding with squads to surface opportunities, prototyping on Coinbase's existing AI platform, and driving adoption through working demos and feedback loops.
• Lead platform excellence workstreams that improve reliability, observability, change-failure rate, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems, partnering with engineering managers to ensure practices persist on the teams.
• Define build-versus-buy strategy for developer-experience and AI tooling across EAA-CX, evaluating what to build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
• Provide Staff-level architectural coverage across squads facing complex challenges, ramping in to land architecture or delivery and ramping off while maintaining portfolio-wide coherence.
• Build highly reliable, secure distributed backend services with full SLO ownership, observability, and incident response, ensuring automated outputs and production changes are traceable, reviewable, and safe in a regulated environment.
Required Skills and Experience:
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems, including deep proficiency in backend service design, API development (gRPC, MCP, GraphQL), and scalable microservices architectures.
• Proven ability to independently lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from whiteboard to production across multi-team problem spaces, writing high-quality, well-tested code that sets the standard for others.
• Strong