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The EAA Compliance CXAE team, part of Coinbase's Enterprise Applications and Architecture org, builds AI-first surfaces, tools, and applications that streamline compliance processes and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Compliance agents. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build full-stack applications that enable Coinbase Compliance Agents to increase productivity, drive automation, and deliver impact at scale through custom development and third-party integrations.
What you'll do:
- Build end-to-end user-facing features using Golang, React, and cloud technologies, delivering AI-first compliance tooling that improves agent productivity and KYC process accuracy.
- Lead assessment, selection, and implementation of third-party tools and vendor integrations into the compliance agent experience platform.
- Drive cross-functional delivery of complex technical solutions in collaboration with product, design, security, data, and peer engineering teams.
- Architect platform improvements that build upon existing development practices and technical domains, delivering reusable capabilities that benefit multiple teams across the organization.
- Own reliability for Tier-1 compliance systems by anticipating potential issues before they reach production and adapting your approach proactively to work within constraints.
- Mentor engineers in full-stack design techniques, coding best practices, testing, release and deployment processes, documentation, and observability (metrics, logging, tracing).
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience developing large-scale systems with Golang and React, shipping user-facing features on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite or similar).
- Demonstrated experience with third-party vendor integrations, including assessment, implementation, and ongoing operational management of external platforms.
- Proven track record building and operating large-scale, high-traffic platforms with hands-on experience in rate limiters, caching, load balancing, circuit breakers, and distributed debugging.
- Proficiency in event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ), SQL or NoSQL databases, and service communication patterns (gRPC, GraphQL, ETL), with experience authoring and contributing to technical architecture decisions.
- Experience working across distributed teams and time zones, translating complex technical concepts into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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- AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering
- 5 years of experience developing large scale systems with Golang and cloud technologies
- Experience with third-party vendor integrations
- Experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, BuildKite or similar
- Experience in rate limiters, caching, load balancing, circuit breakers, metrics, logging, tracing
- Experience in event driven architectures (Kafka, MQ)
- Proficiency in Go
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Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets, including trading, staking, safekeeping, spending, and fast, free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community, we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
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We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world, to help people control their own wealth, start companies, have financial privacy, and participate in the global economy. And to get us there, we focus, build and move as a team.
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