Data Platform Engineer — Self-Service Data Tools

Coinbase; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the data platform that powers analytics and ML across the company. This role sits at the crossroads of platform and analysts, data scientists, and engineers, enabling thousands of pipelines to run without exposing plumbing.

As a Data Engineering Platform Engineer, you will design SDKs, self-service apps, and data models, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable, secure data tooling and observability.

Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong Python or Java backend development skills.
• Fluent SQL for ETL/ELT, data quality, and analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar.
• General experience working with data systems or data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Git, Linux, and Docker.
• Airflow, BI, and AI tool experience.

Responsibilities

• Build clean software abstractions and modular, reusable components that let us support thousands of pipelines and beyond as we scale.
• Build and maintain data integration and processing SDKs used by data teams and internal services across Coinbase.
• Design and build self-service applications that let analysts and data scientists create, manage, and troubleshoot their own pipelines without deep platform knowledge.
• Build tooling for data security and observability: access controls across storage and access layers, data quality tracking, dataset cataloging and lineage, usage auditing.
• Work cross-functionally: consult upstream teams on structuring their databases to expose good data APIs, and give downstream data scientists well-designed, well-documented data models and metrics.
• Convert functional requests from data analysts, ML, and security & compliance into reusable, scalable patterns.

Skills

Backend development (Python/Java)

SQL fluency

Data pipelines experience

Data systems experience

Git/Linux/Docker basics

Airflow/BI/AI tools experience

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Git

Linux

Docker

Airflow

BI tools

AI tools

Job description

Coinbase is building the data platform that powers analytics and ML across the company. This role sits at the crossroads of platform and analysts, data scientists, and engineers, enabling thousands of pipelines to run without exposing plumbing.

As a Data Engineering Platform Engineer, you will design SDKs, self-service apps, and data models, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable, secure data tooling and observability.