Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Coinbase

Remote
Base: $253,895—$298,700 usd; bonus/equity: not spe...
Remote
Large-scale distributed data infrastructure
Streaming platforms
Data lakes
Define and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform, setting direction across data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems

Job Summary

  • Define and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform, setting direction across data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems.
  • Architect for the AI-Native Future: Redesign data infrastructure from the ground up to natively support AI and ML workloads — ensuring that data pipelines, data lake infrastructure, and compute systems can power fraud and other AI models, and modern multi-agent AI architectures.
  • Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: build alignment and secure commitment from senior leadership and cross-functional partners — product, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, ML, privacy, security and compliance — on technical priorities and tradeoffs.

Matching Summary

Define and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform, setting direction across data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systems.

Salary

Base: $253,895—$298,700 USD; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • large-scale distributed data infrastructure
  • streaming platforms
  • data lakes
  • batch and real-time processing engines
  • query/serving layers
  • AI and ML workloads
  • near-real-time data availability

Nice-to-have

  • high-scale tech-forward fintech
  • crypto or financial services
  • change data capture
  • Kafka Connect
  • real-time ETL pipelines
  • Databricks and/or Snowflake
  • public cloud infrastructure

Key Requirements

  • Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure
  • Proven experience moving teams from managed-service dependency toward engineering-built, platform-grade infrastructure
  • Experience designing data systems that support ML training pipelines, feature stores, real-time inference, or AI agent workloads at scale
  • Proven track record owning the technical strategy and architecture for an entire domain across multiple teams
  • Responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots

Work Rights

Not specified

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