Coinbase is hiring a senior engineer to help build the “plumbing” that moves, stores, secures, and serves data across the company. This is platform work: warehouses, lakes, orchestration, batch + streaming pipelines, SDKs, self-serve tooling, and the guardrails (security, lineage, observability) that keep everything compliant and trustworthy.
About Coinbase
Coinbase’s mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the onchain platform and helping shape the future global financial system. The culture is intense and built for people who like big, high-impact problems. Roles are remote-first, but not remote-only, with multiple in-person offsites expected each year.
Schedule
- Full-time, remote-first (not remote-only)
- In-person participation required for multiple offsites annually
- Base salary range: $186,005–$218,900 (bonus + benefits included)
- Application limit: max 4 applications in any 30-day period
- Job #: P62464
- #LI-Remote
What You’ll Do
- Build and operate core data services:
- Storage: cloud data warehouse + data lake
- Orchestration: Airflow
- Batch processing: Spark + SQL
- Streaming: Kafka
- Query federation + caching
- Time-series DB, graph DB, real-time event aggregation stores
- Build and maintain data integration + process SDKs used by internal services/product teams
- Create self-service apps so teams can manage and troubleshoot their own pipelines
- Build end-to-end data security + observability: access controls, data quality, catalog + lineage, usage auditing
- Turn requests from analysts, ML, and security/compliance into reusable patterns and scalable platform components
What You Need
- 5+ years software engineering experience
- Strong backend skills in Python, Go, or Java
- Experience with data systems or pipelines (enough to be dangerous and dependable)
- Familiarity with scale-out patterns, caching, key/value stores, and columnar storage
- Ability to use SQL, Python, Airflow, and BI thinking to get operational insights (not just ship code)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- Health Savings Account with company contributions
- Disability and life insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Wellness stipend
- Mobile/internet reimbursement
- Connections stipend
- Volunteer time off
- Fertility counseling and benefits
- Generous time off/leave policy
- Option to be paid in digital currency (where available)
My blunt take: this role is best for somebody who likes building systems other teams depend on, and doesn’t need constant product spotlight to feel alive. If you want “feature work,” this ain’t it. If you want scale, reliability, and real enterprise-grade platform ownership, this is it.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…