Staff Software Engineer, EAA CX at Coinbase
Frankfort, KY
$218,025–$256,500from the description
Aug 6, 2026
Frankfort, KY
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff Software Engineer role on Coinbase's Customer Administration Engineering team, responsible for evolving an internal operations platform (Control Center) into a modular, AI-agent-ready system serving ~7,000 internal users. The work centers on designing and delivering backend platform capabilities — MCP tool registries, AI orchestration layers, agentic guardrails, and access automation — while setting technical direction, authoring design documents, and mentoring engineers across a multi-team scope.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,850 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,900–8,800
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is explicitly titled 'Staff Software Engineer' and the requirements support that level: org-wide platform ownership, cross-team technical direction, and architectural leadership across multiple product groups.
The posting is remote-first but includes mandatory quarterly in-person 'surge' sessions; fully remote day-to-day work is the norm.
The API development requirement lists gRPC, MCP, and GraphQL as a grouped set; gRPC is used as the primary skill name with MCP and GraphQL in alternatives, as the posting treats them as a combined capability requirement.
Kafka and MQ are listed together as event-driven architecture options; Kafka is the primary with MQ as an alternative.
Python is listed with softer language ('willingness to work across Python') alongside Go, but both appear within the Required Skills section, so both are treated as hard gates. The softer framing for Python is noted here.
Agentic AI experience (MCP servers, LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, HITL workflows, guardrail frameworks) is listed under Required Skills; LLMs and RAG are extracted as the concrete named technologies from that grouping.
Compensation range ($218,025–$256,500 USD/year) is base salary only; total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility per the posting.
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