Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering Platform

Overview

Build the SDKs, self-service apps, and abstractions that let analysts, data scientists, and data engineers run thousands of pipelines and analyses without needing to understand the underlying platform, on the Data Platform team that centralizes all of Coinbase's internal and third-party data.

What you'll do

• Build clean software abstractions and modular, reusable components that let us support thousands of pipelines and beyond as we scale.
• Build and maintain data integration and processing SDKs used by data teams and internal services across Coinbase.
• Design and build self-service applications that let analysts and data scientists create, manage, and troubleshoot their own pipelines without deep platform knowledge.
• Build tooling for data security and observability: access controls across storage and access layers, data quality tracking, dataset cataloging and lineage, usage auditing.
• Consult upstream teams on structuring their databases to expose good data APIs, and give downstream data scientists well-designed, well-documented data models and metrics.
• Convert functional requests from data analysts, ML, and security & compliance into reusable, scalable patterns.

What you'll need

• 7+ years experience
• Strong Python or Java backend development skills.
• Fluent SQL for ETL/ELT, data quality, and analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar.
• General experience working with data systems or data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of git, Linux, and Docker.
• Airflow, BI, and AI tool experience

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065 — $218,900 USD.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.