TL;DR

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform): Lead the technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's scalable data platform, focusing on distributed data infrastructure and AI-native systems. Focus on designing and evolving data pipelines, warehousing, and streaming systems to support real-time data availability and AI/ML workloads at scale.

Location: Hybrid with in-person participation required throughout the year, based in the United States.

Salary: $253,895–$298,700 USD annually

Company

Coinbase is a leading fintech company focused on building the emerging onchain platform and advancing the global financial system through crypto and blockchain technology.

What you will do

  • Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for the Data Platform across ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems.
  • Develop and execute multi-quarter roadmaps focused on engineering-led cost reduction and infrastructure scalability.
  • Architect data infrastructure to natively support AI and ML workloads, including fraud detection and multi-agent AI architectures.
  • Enable near-real-time data availability for downstream teams.
  • Lead cross-functional alignment with senior leadership and partners across product, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, ML, privacy, security, and compliance.
  • Serve as the primary technical voice for the Data Platform domain in organizational forums and planning.

Requirements

  • Must be based in the United States with ability to participate in in-person events and offsites.
  • Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure including streaming platforms, data lakes, and real-time processing engines.
  • Strong systems thinking with expertise in performance, reliability, cost, security, and privacy across the data lifecycle.
  • Proven experience transitioning teams from managed services to engineering-built platform-grade infrastructure.
  • Experience designing data systems supporting ML training pipelines, feature stores, real-time inference, or AI agent workloads at scale.
  • Track record owning technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience in high-scale fintech, crypto, or financial services companies.
  • Familiarity with compliance, data governance, or regulatory data requirements.
  • Experience with change data capture (CDC), Kafka Connect, or real-time ETL pipelines.
  • Experience working on Databricks and/or Snowflake.
  • Experience operating large scale data platforms on public cloud infrastructure.
  • Contributions to open-source data infrastructure projects.

Culture & Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans with generous employee contributions.
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions.
  • Disability and life insurance coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Wellness stipend and mobile/internet reimbursement.
  • Volunteer time off and fertility counseling benefits.
  • Generous time off and leave policies.
  • Option to receive payment in digital currency.