Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Ready Infra, Remote

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to shape the technical strategy for ingestion, processing, and serving of data across the organization.

You will drive architecture, roadmap, and transition toward platform-grade infrastructure powering fraud detection, reporting, and analytics in a remote-first, hybrid-work environment with quarterly in-person surges. Strong emphasis on data security and privacy.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure.
• Record of owning end-to-end technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Deep systems thinking across data lifecycle including security and privacy.
• Experience designing data systems for ML training, real-time inference, or AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform across ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving.
• Architect data infra to support AI/ML workloads and multi-agent AI architectures at scale.
• Drive near-real-time data availability for fraud detection, reporting, and analytics.
• Build alignment with senior leadership and cross-functional partners on priorities and tradeoffs.
• Serve as the primary technical voice for Data Platform in org-wide forums and strategy sessions.

Skills

Distributed data infra

Data platform strategy

AI/ML workloads

Kafka/Databricks/Snowflake

Cost optimization

Leadership

Tools

CDC

Kafka

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to shape the technical strategy for ingestion, processing, and serving of data across the organization.

You will drive architecture, roadmap, and transition toward platform-grade infrastructure powering fraud detection, reporting, and analytics in a remote-first, hybrid-work environment with quarterly in-person surges. Strong emphasis on data security and privacy.