Software Engineer, Data Platform

Details

Join Coinbase's Data Platform team to build and operate systems that centralize 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. This role contributes across foundational processing and storage, scalable pipelines, frameworks, tools, and internal applications that make data efficiently available to other teams and systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational data-heavy services including:
  • Storage: cloud data warehouse, data lake
  • Orchestration: Airflow
  • Batch processing: Spark, SQL
  • Streaming: Kafka
  • Query federation and caching
  • Time-series databases, graph databases, 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 data pipelines
• Design and implement end-to-end data security and data observability: access controls across storage/access layers, data quality tracking, dataset cataloging and lineage, usage auditing
• Translate functional requests from data analysts, ML, security & compliance into reusable and scalable patterns; assemble data microservices into data platforms for business verticals and user cohorts
• Participate in in-person team and company-wide offsites as required (remote-first but not remote-only environment)

Requirements

• At least 2+ 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
• Comfortable leveraging SQL, Python, Airflow, and BI tools to analyze data for operational insights

Nice to Have

• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity (interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps or blockchain-based services)
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility, equity eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Disability and life insurance
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits
• Generous time off/leave policy
• Option to receive pay in digital currency

Pay Range

• $152,405 — $179,300 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include bonus, equity, and benefits)

Additional Notes

• Coinbase is remote-first but requires in-person participation throughout the year; attendance at team and company-wide offsites is expected and supported.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Global Data Privacy Notice for job candidates applies based on location.
• AI tools may be used in pilot programs for initial screening interviews or interview intelligence; humans review interview responses.