Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, Coinbase

• 8+ yrs of industry experience as a Software Engineer
• You have a deep understanding of distributed systems
• You lead by example through high quality code and excellent communication skills
• You have a great sense of design, and can bring clarity to complex technical requirements
• You treat other engineers as a customer, and have an obsessive focus on delivering them a seamless experience
• You have a mastery of the fundamentals, such that you can quickly jump between many varied technologies and still operate at a high level

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join our Machine Learning Platform team
• The team builds the foundational components for training and serving ML models at Coinbase
• Our platform is used to combat fraud, personalize user experiences, and to analyze blockchains
• We are a lean team, so you will get the opportunity to apply your software engineering skills across all aspects of building ML at scale, including stream processing, distributed training, and highly available online services
• Lead the design of the next generation of our Machine Learning platform, to accelerate innovation at Coinbase
• Form a deep understanding of our Machine Learning Engineers’ needs and our current capabilities and gaps
• Mentor our talented junior engineers on how to build high quality software, and take their skills to the next level
• Continually raise our engineering standards to maintain high-availability and low-latency for our ML inference infrastructure that runs both predictive ML models and LLMs
• Optimize ultra-low latency streaming pipelines to give our ML models the freshest and highest quality data
• Collaborate across the industry and be a thought leader in the field of MLOps
• Evangelize state-of-the-art practices on building high-performance distributed training jobs that process large volumes of data