[Remote] Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a leading company in the cryptocurrency space focused on increasing economic freedom. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for their Data Platform team to define and lead the technical strategy, ensuring the data infrastructure supports AI and ML workloads while enhancing data availability across the organization.ResponsibilitiesDefine and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform, setting direction across data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving systemsDevelop and execute a multi-quarter roadmap that transitions the team from operational cost-saving toward engineering-led cost reduction — rethinking how cost scales with infrastructure, not just how to trim itArchitect 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 architecturesDrive the evolution to near-real-time data availability: Enable downstream teams to act on fresher data across the companySpearhead Builder Mindset: push the team to build data infrastructure that creates compounding leverageDrive 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 tradeoffsServe as the primary technical voice for Data Platform in org-wide forums including OKR planning, architecture reviews, and long-term infrastructure strategySkillsDeep experience building and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure — streaming platforms, data lakes, batch and real-time processing engines, and query/serving layersStrong systems thinking: you understand the full data lifecycle and can reason about performance, reliability, cost, security and privacy at each layerProven experience moving teams from managed-service dependency toward engineering-built, platform-grade infrastructureA platform mindset: You think like a product manager for data infrastructure — deeply empathetic to your developer customers, focused on reducing friction, and obsessed with leverageExperience designing data systems that support ML training pipelines, feature stores, real-time inference, or AI agent workloads at scaleProven track record owning the technical strategy and architecture for an entire domain across multiple teamsDemonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and qualityExperience at high-scale tech-forward fintech, crypto, or financial services companiesFamiliarity with compliance, data governance, or regulatory data requirementsExperience with change data capture (CDC), Kafka Connect, or real-time ETL pipelinesExperience working on Databricks and/or SnowflakeExperience operating large scale data platforms on public cloud infrastructureBackground contributing to open-source data infrastructure projectsBenefitsTotal compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))Company OverviewCoinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.