Remote-First Senior Data Platform Engineer

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Data Engineering Platform Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You’ll build the SDKs, self-service apps, and abstractions that enable pipelines and analyses while shielding users from complex plumbing.

As a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, you will collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and engineers to ensure scalable, secure data infrastructure and well-documented data models and metrics.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend data engineering experience.
• Strong Python or Java backend development skills.
• Fluent SQL for ETL/ELT, data quality, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Build clean software abstractions and modular components for thousands of pipelines.
• Build and maintain data integration and processing SDKs for data teams.
• Design self-service applications for analysts and data scientists to manage pipelines.
• Develop tooling for data security, observability, and data cataloging.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to structure databases and expose useful data APIs.
• Translate functional requests into scalable, reusable patterns.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Airflow

Git

Linux

Docker

Data pipelines

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BI tools

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Data Engineering Platform Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You’ll build the SDKs, self-service apps, and abstractions that enable pipelines and analyses while shielding users from complex plumbing.

As a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, you will collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and engineers to ensure scalable, secure data infrastructure and well-documented data models and metrics.