Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Coinbase's Data Platform team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate foundational data-heavy services powering the entire company. You will work across the data stack — cloud data warehouse, data lake, Airflow orchestration, Spark batch processing, Kafka streaming, and time-series and graph databases — enabling internal teams to manage and troubleshoot their own data pipelines at scale.

Responsibilities

  • - Design, build, and operate foundational data services: storage, orchestration (Airflow), batch processing (Spark, SQL), streaming (Kafka), query federation, caching, time-series and graph databases
  • - Build and maintain data integration and process SDKs for internal services
  • - Build self-service applications so teams can manage and troubleshoot their own data pipelines
  • - Design end-to-end data security and observability services: access controls, data quality tracking, dataset cataloging, lineage, and usage auditing
  • - Collaborate with engineers across Coinbase to improve platform reliability and performance

Benefits & Perks

- ₹6,000,000–₹7,000,000/year (India) - Bonus eligibility + equity - Medical, dental, and vision insurance - Fully remote from anywhere in India - Work on data infrastructure used by 100M+ users

Requirements

  • - 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • - Strong Python, Go, or Java backend development skills
  • - General experience working with data systems or data pipelines
  • - Familiarity with design patterns: scale-out, caching, key/value, columnar
  • - SQL, Python, Airflow, and BI expertise for operational insights
  • - Crypto-forward: familiarity with Ethereum, ENS, dApps, or onchain activity a plus

About Coinbase

Coinbase is the world's most trusted crypto exchange, serving 100M+ verified users. The Data Platform team builds Coinbase's foundational data infrastructure — including storage, orchestration, batch processing, streaming services, and real-time event aggregation — enabling every team at Coinbase to move fast with data.

Company Size

1,001–5,000 employees employees

Industry

Fintech / Crypto / Web3

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