Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Role description

The Data Platform team builds and operates systems to centralize all of Coinbase's internal and third-party data, making it easy for teams across the company to access, process, and transform that data for analytics, machine learning, and powering end-user experiences. As an engineer on the team you will contribute to the full spectrum of systems: managing foundational processing and data storage, building and maintaining scalable pipelines, and developing frameworks, tools, and internal applications to make that data easily and efficiently available to other teams and systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational data-heavy services: storage (cloud data warehouse, data lake), orchestration (Airflow), batch processing (Spark, SQL), streaming services (Kafka), query federation and caching, time-series DB, graph DB, and real-time event aggregation stores.
• Build and maintain data integration and process SDKs for internal services and product teams.
• Design and build self-service applications to empower users to manage and troubleshoot their own data pipelines running on the platform.
• Design and build services for end-to-end data security and data observability: manage access controls across multiple storage and access layers, track data quality, catalog datasets and their lineage, and usage auditing.
• Convert functional requests from data analysts, ML, and security & compliance into reusable and scalable patterns; assemble data microservices into data platforms for critical business verticals and user cohorts.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong backend development skills in Python, Go, or Java.
• General experience working with data systems or data pipelines.
• Familiarity with design patterns such as scale-out, caching, key/value, and columnar.
• Ability to leverage SQL, Python, Airflow, and BI expertise to analyze data for operational insights.

Nice to have

• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
• Experience collaborating with machine learning teams or building ML data workflows.

Pay transparency

The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Pay Range: $191,000 — $191,000 CAD

Benefits

• Extended Health Care Benefit (coordinates with Provincial Coverage)
• Dental Care
• Vision Care
• Consult+ (Virtual Health Care)
• Life & Accident Insurance
• Disability Coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Wellness Stipend
• Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
• Connections Stipend
• Learning and Development Allowance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Travel Medical Policy - Global Traveler
• Fertility Benefits
• Generous Time off/Leave Policy

Other notes

• Job #: P62464
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience
• #LI-Remote
• Coinbase may pilot AI tools for initial screening interviews for select roles; a human recruiter will review interview responses. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, contact [email protected].