[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification

September 22, 2026

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a company focused on increasing economic freedom through financial technology. The Agent Verification team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build reliable backend services and integrations that support automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, and merge controls. The role will lead the Unified Merge Gate, collaborate with security and engineering teams, and improve how software changes are reviewed and shipped.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate, the system that determines whether a change can merge and explains what remains before it can proceed
Integrate automated review findings, policy and risk assessments, CI results, identity and attestation evidence, and required human judgment into one merge decision
Build reliable backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI and other Coinbase’s policy systems
Migrate repositories from fragmented legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate, with safe rollouts, observable decisions, and clear rollback paths
Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Codeflow, ZTSC, and repository owners to turn control requirements into usable developer workflows
Measure the effect on human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects

Skills

7+ years experience
Strong backend and distributed-systems experience in Go or a comparable language
Experience designing APIs, durable state, failure recovery, observability, and safe rollout mechanisms
Experience with CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, or another high-consequence control plane
Strong security and authorization judgment. The engineer must understand why a technically convenient path may weaken a production gate
Evidence of leading a cross-team technical project from design through migration and operational ownership
Hands-on AI fluency. The candidate should know how to use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows rather than discuss them only at a conceptual level
We are looking for an experienced backend or platform engineer who has built distributed systems, developer infrastructure, CI/CD integrations, authorization or policy systems, or other high-reliability control planes
Experience with Go, GitHub integrations, AWS, Kubernetes, AI-assisted development, or policy-as-code is helpful

Benefits

Equity eligibility
Bonus eligibility
Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
401(k)
Remote-first work arrangement
Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”

Company Overview

Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is

Company H1B Sponsorship

Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 56 in 2026, 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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