Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Identity
About the role
Senior ML Platform Engineer on Coinbase's ML Platform team responsible for building foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company, with focus on ML inference, streaming data pipelines, distributed training, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
- Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
- Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
- Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
- Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
- Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
- Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans; generous employee contributions
- Health Savings Account with company contributions
- Disability and life insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Wellness stipend
- Mobile/internet reimbursement
- Volunteer time off
- Fertility counseling and benefits
- Generous time off/leave policy
- Option of getting paid in digital currency
About Coinbase
Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
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