Lead Data Platform Engineer - Scale Pipelines & Security

Coinbase, Inc.; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform to centralize internal and third-party data. You will own data services, build SDKs, and deliver self-service tools to monitor pipelines at scale.

Work spans data warehouses, lakes, streaming, and security, with collaboration across analysts, ML engineers, and security teams. Remote-first with periodic in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with production data systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java for backend development at scale.
• Experience with scale-out architectures, caching, key-value stores, and columnar storage.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Airflow, Spark, Kafka in production.
• Experience with data security, access controls, or observability (cataloging, lineage, quality).
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and operation of foundational data services across warehouses, lakes, Airflow, Spark/SQL, Kafka, and real-time stores.
• Build and maintain data integration and processing SDKs used by internal services and product teams at Coinbase.
• Deliver self-service apps for users to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot data pipelines on our platform.
• Architect end-to-end data security, access controls, data quality, cataloging, lineage, and usage auditing.
• Partner with data analysts, ML engineers, security, and compliance to turn requests into scalable data microservices.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Scale-out architectures

Caching

Key-value stores

Columnar storage

SQL

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Data security

Access control

Data observability

Data cataloging

Data lineage

Quality monitoring

Generative AI

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform to centralize internal and third-party data. You will own data services, build SDKs, and deliver self-service tools to monitor pipelines at scale.

Work spans data warehouses, lakes, streaming, and security, with collaboration across analysts, ML engineers, and security teams. Remote-first with periodic in-person surges.