6 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend services for Coinbase Advisor and Strategies from technical design through launch and ongoing operation.
- Build integrations with Coinbase trading APIs to translate agent recommendations and user strategies into correct, auditable trade 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, evaluations, and conversation analysis in partnership with the registered investment adviser.
- Improve service reliability, latency, observability, retry behavior, and safeguards against duplicate actions.
- Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship regulated customer-facing capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep backend expertise and a record of shipping and operating production services.
- Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
- Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn Go quickly.
- Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation.
- Ability to take ambiguous projects from conception to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight and focus on measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Annual base salary is listed separately from equity and bonus eligibility; benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
- Remote-first but not remote-only work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
- Candidates may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.
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About Coinbase
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.