Build AI-first compliance tooling at Coinbase on Golang/React, owning reliability for Tier-1 systems

Coinbase's EAA Compliance CXAE team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build full-stack, AI-first tools that make Compliance Agents faster and more accurate at KYC. The role spans hands-on Golang/React development, leading third-party vendor integrations, owning Tier-1 system reliability, and mentoring engineers, on a remote-first team that gathers quarterly for in-person 'surges.'

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What this interview tests

Full-stack development in Golang and React on cloud infra
Third-party vendor/tool assessment and integration ownership
Reliability engineering for Tier-1 systems (SLOs, proactive incident prevention)
Distributed systems: rate limiters, caching, load balancing, circuit breakers
Event-driven architecture (Kafka/MQ) and service patterns (gRPC, GraphQL)
Mentoring engineers on technical architecture decisions

Common question themes

Design or describe a high-traffic full-stack feature you built with Golang and React

Tell me about leading a third-party vendor integration from evaluation to production

How do you define and defend SLOs for a Tier-1 system, and what happens when you're about to breach one

Debugging a distributed system issue across services with unclear ownership

Where have you used gen AI in your own engineering workflow, and how did you keep human oversight

Mentoring an engineer through a full release/deployment/observability gap

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