Coinbase

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal Automation

Remote - USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$254k-$299kDetected 21 hours ago

Distributed SystemsLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationM&ACorporate LawLeadership

About the role

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way.
This isn't a place for complacency, it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits.

Responsibilities

Identify and prototype the highest-leverage automation opportunities - Map the workflows, find the 20% that drives 80% of the pain, and ship working prototypes that prove the concept before scaling.
Define the build-vs-buy strategy - Evaluate what Coinbase should build internally, what it should integrate, and what it should retire. You write the proposal, own the decision, and manage the outcome.
Deliver production-grade AI systems - Prototypes that don't scale aren't the goal.
You're responsible for ensuring that what gets built is auditable, reliable, and maintainable - with the right guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop design baked in from day one.
Proven experience deploying LLM-based applications to production - including evaluation frameworks, grounding, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design
Multi-agent orchestration experience - you've designed and operated systems where multiple AI agents collaborate, hand off work, and escalate to humans appropriately
Strong judgment on what to build vs. integrate - you think in reusability and long-term maintainability, not just point solutions
Distributed systems fundamentals - document processing, routing logic, structured evaluation, audit trails
Distributed systems fundamentals - document processing, routing logic, structured evaluation, audit trails; you understand how to architect this correctly from day one
Proven ability to deliver in ambiguous, greenfield environments with senior stakeholder visibility

Requirements

You can't engineer what you don't understand.
Required Skills and Experience:

Nice to have

Experience in an embedded or deployment-focused engineering model (e.g., forward-deployed, professional services, or solutions engineering at an AI-first company)
Prior exposure to legal tech, compliance automation, or regulated industry workflows
Experience driving alignment across multiple engineering teams to ship a single outcome

Skills

12+ years of backend software engineering, with a track record of shipping production systems at scale

Compensation

$253,895 - $298,700 USD
Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below).
Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

Company info

Be the technical thought partner to Legal leadership - Serve as the technical conscience of the Legal org. Challenge assumptions, surface engineering risk early, and make sure both sides of the table - legal and engineering - stay aligned.
At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
We are not looking to incrementally improve.

Equal opportunity

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com.

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