Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)

Overview

Staff Software Engineer on the Coinbase Advisor team within Consumer & Business, primarily backend work on an agentic trading system.

What you'll do

• Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation.
• Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable 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, evals, and conversation analysis, partnering with the registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice.
• Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions.
• Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise and a track 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 it quickly.
• Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Location: Remote - Canada.
• Company is remote-first but not remote-only; expect quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
• Position ID: P79041.
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $217,900 CAD.
• Application limit: maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.