Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Identity

As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team at Coinbase, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company. The platform you own supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis, directly shaping how ML scales across Coinbase.

What you'll do

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
• Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.

What you bring

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
• Experience building and operating low-latency data or ML infrastructure such as streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training, processing data at scale.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
• Familiarity with ML platform components including feature stores, model serving frameworks, and training orchestration, sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
• The ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.

What we offer

• Base salary of $191,250-$225,000 USD annually (varies by location), plus equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions for intensive collaboration.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the foundational infrastructure for economic freedom. The company operates a remote-first model and maintains a high-performance culture focused on scaling impact.