Coinbase

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal Automation

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$254k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build a Legal AI infrastructure platform of agents and automated workflows for high-volume legal work.
  • Own the end-to-end institutional client agreement automation system for markup ingestion, playbook evaluation, first-pass redlining, human review, and outcome tracking.
  • Consolidate ad-hoc bots and agents into a cohesive platform with naming conventions, personas, observability, and deployment standards.
  • Serve as a technical thought partner to the VP and Legal leadership by translating legal workflows into engineered systems and engineering constraints into accessible guidance.
  • Define the make-versus-buy strategy and evaluate or retire third-party legal technology in favor of purpose-built internal solutions where appropriate.
  • Develop the pilot and playbook for forward-deployed engineering in non-technical organizations.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of backend software engineering experience shipping production systems at scale.
  • Experience bringing LLM-based applications to production, including evaluation frameworks, grounding, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design.
  • Experience designing and operating multi-agent orchestration systems with human escalation.
  • Ability to learn complex legal workflows and translate them into engineered systems while communicating effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Platform mindset focused on primitives, reusability, standards, and maintainability.
  • Strong distributed-systems fundamentals covering document processing, structured evaluation, routing logic, and audit trails.
  • Ability to set and achieve ambitious goals in ambiguous, greenfield environments.
  • Responsible use of generative AI tools and copilots, including LibreChat, Gemini, and Glean, with human-in-the-loop practices.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), equity, and bonus eligibility may be included in total compensation.
Coinbase

About Coinbase

1,001-5,000 employees

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase's full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.

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