Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer (Platform - AI)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. The Machine Learning Platform team builds the foundational components for training and serving ML models used for fraud detection, personalization, and blockchain analysis. This is a lean team where you will apply software engineering skills across stream processing, distributed training, and highly available online services. Many roles at Coinbase are remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company offsites.

Responsibilities

• Form a deep understanding of Machine Learning Engineers’ needs and identify current capabilities and gaps.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards across the team.
• Maintain high-availability and low-latency ML inference infrastructure that runs predictive models and LLMs.
• Optimize low-latency streaming pipelines to provide fresh, high-quality data to models.
• Evangelize best practices for building high-performance distributed training jobs processing large volumes of data.
• Build tooling to observe data quality going into models and detect degradations impacting model performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Lead by example with high-quality code and excellent communication skills.
• Strong sense of design with the ability to bring clarity to complex technical requirements.
• Treat other engineers as customers and focus on delivering seamless developer experiences.
• Mastery of fundamentals enabling quick adaptation across varied technologies.

Nice to Have

• Experience building ML models and working with ML systems.
• Experience on a platform team and building developer tooling.
• Experience with technologies mentioned below: Python, Golang, Ray, Tecton, Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, DynamoDB.

Compensation & Additional Information

• Pay Range: $186,065 — $218,900 USD.
• Full-time offers include target bonus, target equity, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.).
• Job #: GPMLP05US
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.
• #LI-Remote
• Coinbase requires in-person participation throughout the year; attendance at team and company-wide offsites is expected and supported.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits
• Generous time off/leave policy
• Option of getting paid in digital currency

Equal Opportunity & Privacy Notices

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Depending on location, GDPR/CCPA and other data privacy regulations may apply. Coinbase may pilot AI tools for initial screening and interview intelligence, with human review of interview responses.