Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you're capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It's a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we're seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We're looking for someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company's hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there's no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

About the team: We're a team accelerating AI automation across Blockchain Platform. We built NodeSmith and other agent systems, and now we're collaborating with teams across Blockchain Platform to launch production-grade agents and get the most out of AI tools.

Impact:

• Accelerate AI efforts across a dozen engineering teams in Blockchain Platform
• Reduce operational toil through intelligent automation
• Establish core components for long-running, reliable agents
• Contribute reusable AI building blocks to the central AI Platform for company-wide use

What you'll be doing:

• Building core services and SDKs for long-running, production-grade agent systems
• Driving projects that get the most out of tools like Cursor and Claude Code for engineers across the org
• Directly shipping agents with Blockchain Platform teams
• Working with Python/Go, LangGraph, GoogleADK, MCPs, and more.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• You've designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• Interest in building and scaling agent systems.
• Daily use of AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot.
• Exposure to agent frameworks and concepts.
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
• You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..).
• You've worked with Golang, Pythony, Docker, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).