Remote-First Senior Data Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team to build systems that centralize Coinbase's data for analytics, ML, and end-user experiences. You will own data services across warehouses, lakes, and streaming frameworks, and enable self-service data pipelines at scale.

You will collaborate with analysts, ML engineers, and security teams to craft reusable patterns and secure data platforms. A remote-first culture with in-person surges supports collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with production data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java for backend development.
• Experience with scale-out data infrastructure patterns and storage.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Airflow, Spark, Kafka in production.
• Experience with data security, access control, or observability.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own design, development, and operation of foundational data services spanning cloud data warehouses, data lakes, orchestration (Airflow), batch processing (Spark, SQL), streaming (Kafka), query federation, and real-time event aggregation stores.
• Build and maintain data integration and processing SDKs used by internal services and product teams throughout Coinbase to interact with the data platform reliably at scale.
• Deliver self-service applications that empower users to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot their own data pipelines running on our platform infrastructure.
• Architect end-to-end data security and observability services, including access controls across multiple storage and access layers, data quality tracking, dataset cataloging, lineage, and usage auditing.
• Partner with data analysts, ML engineers, and security and compliance teams to convert functional requests into reusable, scalable patterns and assemble data microservices into platforms for critical business verticals.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Go

Java

Data pipelines

SQL

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Data security

Observability

Generative AI usage

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team to build systems that centralize Coinbase's data for analytics, ML, and end-user experiences. You will own data services across warehouses, lakes, and streaming frameworks, and enable self-service data pipelines at scale.

You will collaborate with analysts, ML engineers, and security teams to craft reusable patterns and secure data platforms. A remote-first culture with in-person surges supports collaboration.