Senior Staff Data Platform Architect — Real-Time AI Infra

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform to define the technical strategy for data infrastructure spanning ingestion, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems.

You will guide architecture, roadmaps, and cross-team collaboration to power AI-ready data platforms. You'll drive real-time data availability and partner with product, security, privacy, and compliance to align priorities.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building large-scale distributed data systems.
• Experience owning end-to-end data strategy across multiple teams.
• Proficient in AI/ML data pipelines and real-time processing.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the technical strategy for Data Platform, setting direction across data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems.
• Architect data infrastructure to natively support AI and ML workloads.
• Drive the evolution to near-real-time data availability for downstream teams.

Skills

Distributed data infra

Strategic leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

Databricks

Snowflake

CDC

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform to define the technical strategy for data infrastructure spanning ingestion, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems.

You will guide architecture, roadmaps, and cross-team collaboration to power AI-ready data platforms. You'll drive real-time data availability and partner with product, security, privacy, and compliance to align priorities.