Senior Software Engineer (EAA)

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Enterprise Applications and Architecture (EAA) team at Coinbase. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in building AI-first surfaces, tools, and applications that streamline compliance processes and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Compliance agents. If you are passionate about building the future of finance and are ready to push past your perceived limits, we want to hear from you. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building full-stack applications that enable Coinbase Compliance Agents to increase productivity, drive automation, and deliver impact at scale through custom development and third-party integrations. Key responsibilities include: - Building end-to-end user-facing features using Golang, React, and cloud technologies, delivering AI-first compliance tooling that improves agent productivity and KYC process accuracy. - Leading assessment, selection, and implementation of third-party tools and vendor integrations into the compliance agent experience platform. - Driving cross-functional delivery of complex technical solutions in collaboration with product, design, security, data, and peer engineering teams. - Architecting platform improvements that build upon existing development practices and technical domains, delivering reusable capabilities that benefit multiple teams across the organization. - Owning reliability for Tier-1 compliance systems by anticipating potential issues before they reach production and adapting your approach proactively to work within constraints. - Mentoring engineers in full-stack design techniques, coding best practices, testing, release and deployment processes, documentation, and observability (metrics, logging, tracing). WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 5+ years of software engineering experience developing large-scale systems with Golang and React, shipping user-facing features on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite or similar). - Demonstrated experience with third-party vendor integrations, including assessment, implementation, and ongoing operational management of external platforms. - Proven track record building and operating large-scale, high-traffic platforms with hands-on experience in rate limiters, caching, load balancing, circuit breakers, and distributed debugging. - Proficiency in event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ), SQL or NoSQL databases, and service communication patterns (gRPC, GraphQL, ETL), with experience authoring and contributing to technical architecture decisions. - Experience working across distributed teams and time zones, translating complex technical concepts into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. WHY REMOTE Coinbase is a remote-first company, with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" to bring teams together. As a remote employee, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere while still being part of a collaborative and dynamic team. BENEFITS Coinbase offers a competitive annual base salary range of $186,065 - $218,900 USD, as well as equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).