Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification
Core
Lead the design and delivery of Coinbase's Unified Merge Gate, integrating automated review findings, policy assessments, CI results, and human judgment into merge decisions.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (distributed systems & control plane)
Builds
Unified Merge Gate backend services and integrations across GitHub, CI systems, and policy systems
Domain
Fintech / Software Engineering / Security & Compliance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go, distributed systems, API design, durable state, failure recovery, observability, safe rollout mechanisms, CI/CD, source-control integrations, developer infrastructure, security and authorization judgment, cross-team technical project leadership, AI-assisted engineering workflows
Preferred skills
AWS, Kubernetes, policy-as-code
Responsibilities
Design and deliver the Unified Merge Gate; Integrate automated review findings, policy assessments, CI results, and human judgment into merge decisions; Build reliable backend services and integrations; Migrate repositories from legacy controls to the Unified Merge Gate; Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and repository owners; Measure human-review volume, time-to-merge, automated merge coverage, decision quality, and escaped defects
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
