Senior Data Platform Architect for AI-Ready Infra

Coinbase, Inc.; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform to set the technical strategy across ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems. This role shapes a platform-grade infrastructure powering fraud detection, analytics, and AI-ready workloads.

You'll lead architecture, drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and push for engineering-built solutions beyond managed services, reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building large-scale distributed data infrastructure.
• End-to-end data strategy across multiple teams.
• Experience designing data systems for ML training pipelines and real-time inference.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform, setting direction across data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems while driving engineering-led cost reduction at the infrastructure layer.
• Architect data infrastructure to natively support AI and ML workloads, ensuring pipelines, data lake systems, and compute can power ML training, feature stores, real-time inference, and multi-agent AI architectures at scale.
• Drive the evolution to near-real-time data availability, enabling downstream teams across Coinbase to act on fresher data for fraud detection, financial reporting, and analytics.
• Build alignment and secure commitment from senior leadership and cross-functional partners across product, infrastructure, analytics, ML, privacy, security, and compliance on technical priorities and tradeoffs.
• Serve as the primary technical voice for Data Platform in org-wide forums including OKR planning, architecture reviews, and long-term infrastructure strategy, while elevating senior engineering talent.

Skills

Distributed data infra

Technical strategy

ML pipelines

AI workloads

Cost optimization

Cross-functional leadership

Generative AI governance

Tools

Kafka

Databricks

Snowflake

CDC

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform to set the technical strategy across ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems. This role shapes a platform-grade infrastructure powering fraud detection, analytics, and AI-ready workloads.

You'll lead architecture, drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and push for engineering-built solutions beyond managed services, reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering.