Remote-First Data Platform Engineer: Self-Service Pipelines

Coinbase, Inc.; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring for a Data Engineering Platform Engineer on the Data Platform team. You will help build SDKs, self-service apps, and abstractions used by thousands of pipelines, enabling analysts, data scientists, and engineers to access and process data efficiently.

You will work across data processing, storage, and tooling, influencing data security and observability. Required skills include 7+ years of backend development in Python or Java, strong SQL, and hands-on experience with

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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 components to support thousands of pipelines as we scale.
• Build and maintain data integration and processing SDKs used by data teams and internal services.
• Design and build self-service applications for analysts and data scientists to manage pipelines.
• Build tooling for data security and observability: access controls, data quality tracking, cataloging, lineage, auditing.
• Collaborate with upstream teams on structuring databases to expose good data APIs and provide well-documented data models and metrics.
• Convert functional requests from data analysts, ML, and security & compliance into reusable patterns.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Snowflake

Databricks

Data pipelines

Git

Linux

Docker

Airflow

BI

AI tools

Tools

Git

Linux

Docker

Airflow

Job description

Coinbase is hiring for a Data Engineering Platform Engineer on the Data Platform team. You will help build SDKs, self-service apps, and abstractions used by thousands of pipelines, enabling analysts, data scientists, and engineers to access and process data efficiently.

You will work across data processing, storage, and tooling, influencing data security and observability. Required skills include 7+ years of backend development in Python or Java, strong SQL, and hands-on experience with