Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)

Coinbase is a remote-first cryptocurrency exchange. This staff engineer joins the Coinbase Advisor team in the Consumer and Business group. Coinbase Advisor is an RIA-licensed agentic trading system: an AI advisor inside the Coinbase app that talks with users about their portfolio, gives personalised advice and executes trades on their behalf.

The role is mainly backend. You would own the services behind Coinbase Advisor and Strategies from design through launch and operation, integrate with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user strategies turn into correct, auditable execution, and build the agentic harness: tool calling, orchestration, persistent state and recovery from failed or half-finished actions. You would also shape agent behaviour through prompt engineering, evals and conversation analysis, and harden reliability, latency, observability and safeguards against duplicate actions, working with frontend, trading infrastructure, product and compliance.

Coinbase wants 5+ years of professional software engineering with deep backend experience running production services, strong API design, distributed systems and data modelling, Go or the ability to learn it quickly, and hands-on experience building production LLM or agentic systems.

Base pay is CAD 217,900 a year, plus equity and bonus eligibility. Remote in Canada.