Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&amp;utm_source=coinbase">Coinbase</a>, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers">learn more about working at Coinbase</a>.</p></div><h1>Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer</h1> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap">As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team within the <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers/product-groups" target="_blank">Platform</a> group, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across Coinbase. The platform you build supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis. You'll own critical systems spanning stream processing, distributed training, and highly available inference services, directly shaping how ML scales across the company.</p> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap"><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.</li> <li>Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.</li> <li>Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.</li> <li>Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.</li> <li>Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.</li> </ul> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap"><strong>Required Skills and Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.</li> <li>Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.</li> <