Coinbase - TEST - GH API (EA YES)
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal Automation
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Architect and build a production-grade Legal AI platform of LLM-based agents and automated workflows to automate high-volume legal tasks, own institutional client agreement automation, consolidate agent tooling, define make-vs-buy strategy, and partner with legal leadership to translate workflows into scalable engineered systems.
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Coinbase's Legal organization manages corporate governance across 60+ global subsidiaries, public company reporting, institutional client agreements, and product counsel for every product group. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Legal Automation, you'll join this team to architect and deliver the AI-native platform that transforms high-volume legal workflows into scalable, automated systems. You'll embed directly with Legal leadership, prototype the highest-leverage opportunities, and ship production-grade AI agents that set the standard for how non-technical orgs at Coinbase operate with AI.
What You'll Do:
- Embed with Legal leadership to develop ground-level understanding of workflows, join planning sessions, and identify the automation opportunities with the greatest business impact.
- Architect and deliver production-grade AI systems with built-in auditability, observability, human-in-the-loop design, and guardrails from day one.
- Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of Legal and CCO, translating complex legal workflows into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to legal stakeholders.
- Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, integrate from partner teams, or retire.
- Serve as the technical thought partner to Legal leadership, surfacing engineering risk early and keeping legal and engineering teams aligned on priorities and tradeoffs.
- 12+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems at scale in ambiguous, greenfield environments.
- Proven experience deploying LLM-based applications to production, including evaluation frameworks, grounding, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design.
- Multi-agent orchestration experience designing and operating systems where multiple AI agents collaborate, hand off work, and escalate to humans appropriately.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn from non-technical domain experts, internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements and reusable platform primitives.
- Distributed systems fundamentals including document processing, routing logic, structured evaluation, and audit trails.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job ID: P77646
Pay Transparency 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):
$253,895—$298,700 USD
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: 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.
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Coinbase - TEST - GH API (EA YES) Fremont, California, USA Office
47800 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, United States, 94539
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