Senior Data Platform Engineer: Build Scalable Pipelines

Coinbase; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of the financial system by creating a scalable, onchain platform. We seek a data platform engineer to design and operate data-heavy services, enabling fast analytics and ML across teams.

You will build self-service data tooling, ensure data security and observability, and assemble microservices into platforms for critical business verticals. Strong backend and data-pipeline experience required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Backend development with Python/Go/Java.
• Experience with data systems or data pipelines.
• Familiar with scale-out, caching, key/value, and columnar patterns.
• SQL, Python, Airflow and BI for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational data-heavy services (storage, data lake, data warehouse; streaming and batch processing).
• Build and maintain data integration SDKs for internal services and product teams.
• Design and build self-service applications to empower users to manage their data pipelines.
• Develop data security and observability services (access controls, data lineage, cataloging, auditing).
• Assemble data microservices into platforms for critical business verticals and cohorts.

Skills

5+ years exp

Python/Go/Java

Data pipelines

Design patterns

SQL/Airflow/BI

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of the financial system by creating a scalable, onchain platform. We seek a data platform engineer to design and operate data-heavy services, enabling fast analytics and ML across teams.

You will build self-service data tooling, ensure data security and observability, and assemble microservices into platforms for critical business verticals. Strong backend and data-pipeline experience required.