Senior Software Engineer (EAA)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the EAA Compliance CXAE team, building AI-first full-stack applications that streamline compliance processes and increase the productivity of Coinbase Compliance Agents.

What you'll do

• Build end-to-end user-facing features using Golang, React, and cloud technologies, delivering AI-first compliance tooling that improves agent productivity and KYC process accuracy.
• Lead assessment, selection, and implementation of third-party tools and vendor integrations into the compliance agent experience platform.
• Drive cross-functional delivery of complex technical solutions in collaboration with product, design, security, data, and peer engineering teams.
• Architect platform improvements that build upon existing development practices and technical domains, delivering reusable capabilities that benefit multiple teams across the organization.
• Own reliability for Tier-1 compliance systems by anticipating potential issues before they reach production and adapting your approach proactively to work within constraints.
• Mentor engineers in full-stack design techniques, coding best practices, testing, release and deployment processes, documentation, and observability (metrics, logging, tracing).

What you'll need

• 5+ years of software engineering experience developing large-scale systems with Golang and React, shipping user-facing features on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite or similar).
• Demonstrated experience with third-party vendor integrations, including assessment, implementation, and ongoing operational management of external platforms.
• Proven track record building and operating large-scale, high-traffic platforms with hands-on experience in rate limiters, caching, load balancing, circuit breakers, and distributed debugging.
• Proficiency in event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ), SQL or NoSQL databases, and service communication patterns (gRPC, GraphQL, ETL), with experience authoring and contributing to technical architecture decisions.
• Experience working across distributed teams and time zones, translating complex technical concepts into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065 - $218,900 USD.
• Job ID: P75245.