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CoinbaseSenior Software Engineer - Data Platform
Coinbase operates as a remote-first organization with a mission focused on expanding economic freedom. The company requires staff to gather periodically for in-person collaboration sessions known…
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Coinbase operates as a remote-first organization with a mission focused on expanding economic freedom. The company requires staff to gather periodically for in-person collaboration sessions known as surges. Within the Platform group, the Data Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help centralize internal and third-party data assets. This position suits an experienced backend engineer interested in building scalable infrastructure that empowers other teams to access, process, and transform…
Job Description
Coinbase operates as a remote-first organization with a mission focused on expanding economic freedom. The company requires staff to gather periodically for in-person collaboration sessions known as surges. Within the Platform group, the Data Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help centralize internal and third-party data assets.
This position suits an experienced backend engineer interested in building scalable infrastructure that empowers other teams to access, process, and transform data for machine learning, analytics, and end-user products. The person in this role will handle the entire lifecycle of data systems, from foundational storage and processing layers to robust pipelines, frameworks, and internal applications.
Day-to-day work involves designing data services, building SDKs for platform interaction, delivering self-service tooling for pipeline management, and establishing security and observability controls. The engineer will collaborate closely with machine learning engineers, data analysts, and security personnel to translate business needs into reusable platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate core data services across data lakes, cloud data warehouses, real-time event aggregation stores, batch processing, query federation, streaming, and orchestration tools.
- Build and maintain data processing and integration software development kits used by product teams throughout the company.
- Deliver self-service applications enabling users to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot their data pipelines.
- Architect data security and observability features including access controls, data quality tracking, lineage, cataloging, and usage auditing.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, data analysis, and machine learning teams to transform functional requests into scalable design patterns.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years of background in backend software engineering with practical experience building and running data systems or pipelines in production.
- Working knowledge of Go, Python, or Java for backend programming to construct data-serving services at scale.
- Familiarity with data infrastructure concepts like columnar storage systems, scale-out architectures, key/value stores, and caching layers.
- Production experience utilizing tools and frameworks such as SQL, Airflow, Spark, or Kafka.
- Background implementing data observability, access control, or security systems including quality monitoring, cataloging, or lineage.
- Ability to apply generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, quality, and cost.
Core Skills
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Equity eligibility
- Bonus eligibility
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this position remote?
Yes, Coinbase operates as a remote-first company, though employees are expected to attend quarterly in-person working sessions referred to as surges.
What is the salary range for this role?
The annual base salary ranges from $186,065 to $218,900 USD, excluding equity and bonus eligibility.
How many applications can a candidate submit?
Candidates are limited to a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.
What qualifications are needed to apply?
Applicants need at least five years of backend software engineering experience, proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, and hands-on production experience with data processing frameworks and infrastructure.
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