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# Software Engineer, Data Platform Team

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Springfield, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $152,405.0 - $179,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Systems, Linux, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Snowflake, Git, Build Management, Data Pipelines, Docker, Databricks
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/05516960781F44889B0A3F4A798AB037/job/

## About the Role

* 3+ years of relevant work 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

## Description

* 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.
 * Work cross-functionally: 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.


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