Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Coinbase Advisor team within Consumer & Business, you'll own the backend services powering the world's first RIA-licensed agentic trading system. Coinbase Advisor is an AI advisor living inside the Coinbase app that holds natural conversations about users' portfolios, gives personalized financial advice, and executes trades on their behalf. You'll work on a full-stack team to make agentic trading feel fast, clear, and trustworthy for millions of customers.

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 bring

• 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
• The ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $218,025-$256,500 USD (varies by location), plus equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" for team collaboration
• Remote-first work environment

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates a remote-first structure with intense quarterly in-person collaboration sessions.