About the company
Coinbase is a remote-first company on a mission to increase economic freedom. Expect quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
Responsibilities
- Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation
- Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution
- Develop the agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions
- Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evals, and conversation analysis
- Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions
- Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep backend expertise
- Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures
- Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly
- Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation
- Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight
Conditions
- Annual base salary range: $186,065 — $218,900 USD (excluding equity and bonus)
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
- Application limit: maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period