Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Identity

<div class="content-intro"><p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&amp;utm_source=coinbase">Coinbase</a>, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. 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. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers">Learn more about working at Coinbase</a>.</p> <div id="fortidlp-input-element-parent"></div></div><p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap">As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team within the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers/product-groups" target="_blank">Platform</a> group, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across Coinbase. The platform you build supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis. You'll own critical systems spanning stream processing, distributed training, and highly available inference services, directly shaping how ML scales across the company.</p> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap"><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.</li> <li>Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.</li> <li>Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.</li> <li>Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.</li> <li>Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.</li> </ul> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap"><strong>Required Skills and Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.</li> <li>Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.</li> <li>Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.</li> <li>Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.</li> <li>Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.</li> </ul> <div id="fortidlp-input-element-parent"></div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Pay Transparency Notice:</strong><strong><em> </em></strong>Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><div class="title">Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$191,250</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$225,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><ul> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><strong><em>Application Limit: </em></strong>Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.</li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer: </strong>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.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>US Applicants: </strong>View<a href="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf"> Employee Rights</a>,<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf"> Know Your Rights</a>, and<a href="https://static-assets.coinbase.com/e-verify.pdf"> E-Verify</a> Notice of Participation.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Accommodations: </strong>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.&nbsp;Need screen reading technology?<a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/screen-reader/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn"> Click here</a> to download a free compatible screen reader and view the<a href="http://www.chromevox.com/tutorial/"><strong> </strong>tutorial</a>.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Data Privacy &amp; Arbitration: </strong>By submitting your application, you agree to our<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/legal/applicant_privacy_notice"> Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/legal/application-arbitration-agreement"> Arbitration of Disputes</a>.<br></em></span></li> </ul> <div id="fortidlp-input-element-parent"></div></div>