Coinbase

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal Automation

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3 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

5,001-10,000 employees

Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.

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