Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

ABOUT THE ROLE We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team within the Platform group at Coinbase. As a key member of our team, you'll play a critical role in building the systems that centralize all of Coinbase's internal and third-party data. Your work will help make it easy for teams across the company to access, process, and transform data for analytics, machine learning, and powering end-user experiences. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and operating foundational data services spanning cloud data warehouses, data lakes, orchestration, batch processing, streaming, query federation, and real-time event aggregation stores. Your tasks will include: - Building and maintaining data integration and processing SDKs used by internal services and product teams throughout Coinbase to interact with the data platform reliably at scale. - Delivering self-service applications that empower users to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot their own data pipelines running on our platform infrastructure. - Architecting 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. - Partnering 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. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To succeed in this role, you'll need: - 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with hands-on experience building and operating data systems or data pipelines in production. - Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java for backend development, with demonstrated ability to build services that process and serve data at scale. - Experience with data infrastructure patterns including scale-out architectures, caching layers, key/value stores, and columnar storage systems. - Hands-on experience with SQL, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, or similar data processing and orchestration frameworks in production environments. - Experience with data security, access control, or data observability systems, including cataloging, lineage, or quality monitoring. - Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. WHY REMOTE Coinbase is a remote-first company, with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges." This unique approach allows you to work from anywhere while still collaborating with your team in person. BENEFITS Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility, as well as benefits such as medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). The annual base salary range for this role is $186,065 - $218,900 USD, depending on location.