Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification

As a Senior Software Engineer on Agent Verification at Coinbase, you will design and build reliable backend services that help Coinbase safely ship software in an AI-native development environment. You'll lead the adoption of a consistent and observable merge path, working across source control, CI/CD, policy systems, and developer workflows to improve how software changes are reviewed and shipped across the organization.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase's Unified Merge Gate, the system that determines whether a change can merge and explains what remains before it can proceed
• Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity and attestation evidence, and required human judgment into one merge decision
• Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI, and Coinbase's policy systems
• Migrate repositories from fragmented legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate, with safe rollouts, observable decisions, and clear rollback paths
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows
• Measure the effect on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience in backend and distributed systems, ideally in Go or a comparable language
• Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms
• Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane
• Strong security and authorization judgment, understanding why a technically convenient path may weaken a production gate
• Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and operational ownership
• Hands-on AI fluency with practical experience using and evaluating AI-assisted engineering workflows

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $186,065-$218,900 USD, varying by location
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first work environment with quarterly in-person working sessions

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates a remote-first structure and brings teams together quarterly for intensive in-person sessions called "surges."